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W EST ERN K EN T UCKY UN I VE RSITY ALUM N I MAGAZ IN E FALL 1990

3 "Dancing On Wall s"

Govemor's Scholars Program

4 An Anni versary Gift

The Raymolld Prestoll Health & Activities Cellter Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Preston celebrate their 50th anniversMY with a gift to Western.

6 The 1990 Alumn i Annual Student Phonathon

Strellgth ill NUll/bers " E.,ch and every gift strengthens Western Kentucky University by helping to p rovide fimlndal aid , improve classrooms and equipment, ilnd support new academic progrilllls."

8 A Sturd y Individualis t

The Virgil/in Woods !ollmalism Elldowlllelil

9 Turn Your Radio On

WKYU-FM Celebrates 10 Years Turn your lights d own low .. . and listen to Western's public radio service, WKYU­FM, as they celebrate their 10th anniver­sary with a gala concert, fea turing Gary Morris.

10 Competit ive Ed ge

Miss KelltllckylMiss Western

11 Exc itement!

1990 HOlllecollllllillg

22 Mammoth Cave is a Cool Spot in a Hot Summe r

Stl/(iellts Go Ul/{iergroll l1d An intcrnat ional group of C<lve enthusias ts join Western studcnts and f<lcu lty for an "in-depth" s tud y of the world 's longest C<lVC system.

2 Editoria l

6 From the Hill

18 Alumni Profiles

24 Class o tes

26 Alumni Club Presidents

27 Alumni Club Notes

31 In Memoria m

32 Reunions

AllOUTTI-lECOVFR In hOllo, at Ihl'i, SOlh u't-J·

dj"g OIIUlIVl'"TSary, M,. "nd Mrs. RDymvnd B. Prl'stOI! hnt't! mndt II possrble [or WKU to btgjl! colls/,ucho" of jts 510 mlllrou hmllh aud aclil'i/i.'$ ctllter by IIUlking a sigllificOIrrt ftllallcial COlllri­bl/tiOlr to IIII' Ullk'fTSi/y's rol,i/a/ (mllIJlllglI . COI't"

l1/w/o of M,. I',es/orr by Tarlg·RicJUlrdsOIr CamillI"· ciall'llO/ogmlllly, [OOIlSI,il/I', Im/ialla.

W elcome to ALUMNI, Western's new quarterly magazine.

If you've been receiving Western's tabloid over the last several years, you'll notice quite a change in our new fo rmal. Any university must cling to wh<ll it holds dear, to its tradi­tion. But progress has always been a part of Western's tradition. Therefore, what we unfold today with the premier issue of ALUMN I is a contemporary magazine that will keep up-IO­date with Western, with Wh.lt it is becoming, and what it aspires to be.

In conversations with alumni and fr iends across the Ililtion, one word kept popping up­"magazi ne," For the p.1St scver.ll months. the WKU Alumni staff has been meeting with R. R. Donncllcy and Sons Company, locatro in Glasgow, Kentucky, to discuss the concept of printing an alumni magazine.

In announci ng this new direction, Presi­dent Thom;lS Meredith recognizes the quali ty of the publication .. nd the support and coop­eration which Donnelley is providing: "The in­ternational reputation of R. R. Donnellcy and their creative appro.1ch to our need make this a significant advancc in our communications w ith alumni and friends of Western Kentucky University."

Recogni,£(xi as a leading producer of nation­ally circulated magazincs, R. R. Donnelley was very eager to present Western with a propos.11 for printing our quarterly publication. Western Kentucky University will P.1y Donnelley for the cost of materials and I;lbor w ith a combina­tion of cash payments and schol.1Tships for Donnellcy cmployces and their families. Don­nel1ey will forgo their normal charges making this arrangement possible;lt;l considerable s<wings to the University.

Alumni Director Jim Richards TCminds alumni of the n&.-d for ongOing support of the University's programs: "Continued support through the Alumni Annual Fund makes this ;lnd other programs possible."

W e're calling this publication venture our new ',(.-ducation/industry partnershi p," and feci vcry fortunate to have this opportu­nity. As Jim BresheaT, Donnelley's Hum;m Re­sources Milnilger, stated in il leiter to Alumni Director Jim Rich.uds, "It's greilt when every­one Ciln win."

And the excitement between the newly­formed ALUMNI magazine st;llf and the ex­perts at Donnel1eys is absolutely overwhelm­ing!

The magat,ine will feature stories that reve;ll the f;Jf-ranging intellt.'Ctual interests of the Western faculty and the exciting contributions of the students-Western's future alumni.

Today, the ALUMN I must reflect the ex­p.-.ndcd mission of the University. II must draw upon Western's diversity to communi­cate to alumni and othcrs the ideas, the people, and thc programs that make WKU special, ex­citing, nnd worthy of your in terest. And so we change, But only in keeping with the tradition of serving our readers and Wt.'Stern Kentucky Uni\'ersity.

Lucinda AI/dersol/ Edi/or

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Governor's Scholars Program Higher Lenmillg fo r Higll School Students

T he Kentucky Governor's Scholars Pro­gram was held this summer at two Kentucky campuses, Centre College in Danville and Westcrn Kentucky University.

TIlC Governor's Scholars Program exposes 16- and 17-year-olds to new ide.ls, to intensive leilrning withollt grades and to culturill and 50-

WE CAN ' DANCE ON WALLS' TO CHANGE STATUS QUO

This year's Governor's Scholars Program is encour.lging us to "dilllce on wall!>," to im­prove our world by changing the ~ t ;ltu~ quo. Chanst' ha~ recently swept the world like a ~trong and startling gust of wind.

Sarrier.r-phy'>ic.ll, social and cconomic­have tumbled with an amaZing swiftness. As scholars at esp, we have been encour.lged, even go..ld<.-d, to take the initi;ltin' ;lnd break down the wall .. which we encounter evcry day.

On the We~tern Kentucky campu<; of GSl', we have focu.';(.-d on Changes through a se­ries of films and ,>peakers. Film ... '>uch as "Do the Right TIling," "A Dry Whit(> ~il<;on," and "Inherit the Wind" have demon'>trated the need for social change and h,He encour­aged us to "m,l~<" waves" and challeng(' the inequities in ollr society_

Two SOCi,ll pc;ychologists from the USSR, Dr. Marinil Ab.ll;lkina and Dr. Vl;ldimir Ag­eyev, .. poke with us about th<.' rilpid changes in the $()\-il·t Union and the effect tlMt these changC'o will have on their li\'t.'S, ;lnd on OUT'>.

Fmm the very first week of the program, ,>cholars hnv(' organi%cd groups dcsign('(\ to create chilnge or ju<;t make a ~tatel\lent. An environll1ent,ll awareness group hilS enthu­Si.l!:otic.llly and ~ucces.sfully encourageo..i scholars to rt.'Cycl<.' their .lluminllm c.ms and to come to me.lls equipped with their own cups in ordl'r to rt.'liuce paper wa<;h~.

Schol;lT'> h .. vc ;llso organi/l-d other groups to express concern'> <lnd initiiltc changes within the GSP community. Schola r,> have requested and receh-ed a curfew extension and the opportunity for m.ak'S and fcmall's to vi,>it each othcrs rooms scyeral hours

Ci;ll opportunities ll1<l ny may not have had in the P;lSt. Studcnts pick;l "major," ranging from fine arts to Russian to biology to mathe­matics_ They attend classes of onc teacher to 15 students.

One of the paricipants wrote nbollt their (>x­pcrience in the following nrtic1e:

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each week before curfew. Time and again wc, .1~ IIltc11igent and moh­

V.lted t('("nagers, have bt.'Cn told by OllT pil r­('Ilts .md tCilchers th.lt the burden of turning our world right-side-up <llpin is rtSting he.wily on our shou lders.

Through our involvement in GSI>, we have proven ourselves read\! to as!>U1ne th.lt but­den. Whilt i .. more important is that we look at the "burden" .1S .In exciting challenge, not ;l chorc. Jndeed, we are <l)re.ldy "dilncing on the willI,"

Sabril1l1 8illill~~ semor III rti;:nb""rlml'l1 ffiK" Scilool

Litem/lire mlljl.Jr GOl't'mo,'~ Scholllrs Progrtlm.

Governor's SchoLua: What they thlnk about Westemand ib campus

~lf~ mlily prrlty. bul I'd Itlllhtm tu grl /lmr ~ In Jhrlpt V.mrss.r AmaiJ Iffttn-r 011",

Ilotlf' 1M tAl" things 111'1.' wid Oul If_,U5' pr( tly III lout. lit, and IhtTt· $ atwajP ik»fIt­thinlllfl'WthDt you • didn't MIter brfOrr Kristy ArnuIJ Meln," COlmtv

I blow in the lilm.ry upon ,he 8111 or 91h floor lhe I'k'fl'" Iw~t 1114gnificn1t l"~ rr­flll" IUWI I ""IIy liJ:" the (»Iff,.,.$ II"", -J. 11urrp!lOtl MmdI' eountv

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prrlty Ulmpu~. / u!ltd to think Iii!"'" on II hill Mfim 1 Ul/flt htl'l.'_ My lip don·1 /IothtT lilt" lImO, bul / still gd 0111 oJ( I>mllh Marc"" Wi'",,, Whtrlu-nXhl Floyd County

FALL I~~O I 3

ArchllN't's nmdl"rillS at tht Raymond B. Prr:;ton HlTllth & Actil~tJt'S Cnll". COII~lnl(l ioll of 1M Cort" u'llI bt>gill this fall.

Raymond Prt'S/OIr and his f/'I;t, I falllf, al tllt'/uly 2711r W'tl':'; ccm[rrCller held a/ WI':'ltfrll to allrlOlmer til,' lilt, wl/l,lI-·s IJlJHil'i'rsary gIft 10 lire UI!i!Ji'r~ily.

Al/I/lJlli celebrate their 50th nllI1iversanj with a gift to Western

THE RAYMOND B. P RESTON

Health & Activities Center

RAYMOND B. PRESTON of Henderson met his wife, Hattie, in a psychology class at Western Kentucky Uni­

versity more than 50 years ago. In honor of their 50th wedding anni­

versary, the Prestons made it possib le for WKU to begin construction of its $10 million health and activities center by making a significant financial con­tribution to the University's capital ca mpaign.

"It just seems appropri i'lte," s.1 id the founder and chief executive officer and president of PB & S Chemica l Company, who paid tribute to hi s wife at a news conference to announce the gift to Western, which he sa id also at­tests to his love for h is univers ity.

WKU's Board of Regents at a special meeting an hour later voted to name

its new build ing the Raymond B. Preston J-Ienlth and Activities Center after the 1940 gmdua te of WK U.

"At the donor's request, the amount of the gift to Western wi ll not be re­leased ," WKU President Thomas C. Meredith said, adding: ") can truly say, however, that the Prestons ha ve made to Western the largest s ingle gi ft ever made in the history of this University. Western is most grateful for this generolls contribution. It is an encouraging sig n as we continue our external fund -ra ising efforts."

Chairma n of the WKU Board of Re­gents Joseph Iracane of Owensboro 5.:"1 id : "This legacy will las t a lifetime. Our gra titude to you," he told the Prestons, "is endless. "

President Meredith 5.:"1 id the money will be used toward payment of relo-

cation of utilities and one-half of the firs t year's debt service, w hich WKU is required to pay prior to the awarding of construct ion funds from the state.

Kentucky's General Assembly ap­p roved cons truction of the faCility in 1988, and the cen ter is designed to provide a modern, comprehensive health and recreation environment for Western students, facul ty and staff.

"M y wife and T lI1et

ill a psychology class here

(at Westem ) 52 years ago.

Two years later we 1Vere

married. We cOllld think of

1I0thillg better Ihan to retllm

sOlllethillg to Westem on 0111'

50th weddillg alllliversary.

The thillgs we learned here

have served liS well."

Prt"Stml, fOlmder ami [IIi4 e.li"(lIliw officer of PB & 5 Clu:lIJical COIIII)(lIlY, acblOrl'irdS"i/ IIrr IIImrks of Wl"Slerll Prr<idml Thomll~ C. M,'r,~litl, alld Iklt",1 of R";;;t'nts dllr­illS a July 271h pr<'l;S omfcr"II(I'.

Meredith said cons truction o f the fa­cili ty. which will be located on Regents Avenue near the south law n of the Down ing Uni ve rsi ty Center, will begin th is fall.

Preston g raduated from Western with a bachelor's degree in chemistry.

PB&S C hemical Co. is the 11 th largest chemica l dist ributing company in the U.s.

He and his w ife, the former Hattie Paff of Henderson, an alumna of WKU, have four dattghters, Viki Brigham o f Peachtree City, Ga., Connie Walaskay of Henderson, Cha rlotte Kaye Critser of Signal Mountain, Tenn. and Leigh Anne Preston of Alexa ndri a, Va. and a son, Kent, who will be <l sophomore at WKU this fal l.

A dditollal DOllars to the Health & Activities Cellter

T rans Financial Bancorp Inc,

F ruit of the Loom

J im Scott

FAll 1990 / 5

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Strength in Numbers Ti,e 1990 A luI1t11i A,muol F""d-Stlufe"t P/,OlUl tiloll needs your participation

The 1990 Alumni Annual Fund -Student Phonolhon plans to surp.1SS last yeM's contributions with the announcement of

this year's S0.11 of SI ~.OOJ.OO - and iI's being taken vcry 5('riollsly.

Westem's alumni and friends made 1989's Stu­dent Phonothon a record-breaking yea r as they gave more than $125,000.00 to the university. Severa l factors added to the success of last year's event: student volunteers made more than one phone call 10 r~ach the alumnus and, when reached, a n.'(lu~t was made to consider 11 mini­mum gift of $100.00; and another reason for the phonothon'o; success was that "people are more aware of ou r needs", Ron Beck, Phonothon Coor­d inator Solid. "They realize wc have to have pri~ v"te funds ill ordcr to keep Wt.'S tcrn moving for­ward", h('added .

RecogniLed as Western's primary vchicle fo r alumni and friends to provide financiill gifts to supporlthe university's ilcademic programs, this ye,lr's phonothon h"s not one hOllorMY chair­man, but honorary chairpersons (or eilcll decade and representiltives from the Bowling Green Business University and several academic depart­ments.

Decades 1930s Brad Mu tchle r

1940s Corne lia Willey Graham John Ol d ha m

19505 Jean Am os Kennedy To m Emberton

19605 A lice Chumbley Lora Larnell il arris

1970s

19805

MMy Jane Sca rboroug h Parrish Dan Pel ino C handy Christia n Tim Todd

6 / WESTEIl'l K~NTUCI" UNIV@IlSIT~ A~!'M" I \IACA7INf

One importilnt aspect of the dri\·c is the di rection that gifts may take · restr icted and unrcc; trictcd. Accord~ng to WKU

Development Di rector Ilil l Jeffcoat, "There are unmet needs at Western lhat d efinitely cou ld be supported by alumni and friends, fund s fro m restricted and unrestric ted gifts to the Univer­si ty, and when yOll look at last yeM's success story, [ believe people will continue milking such gifts."

"RestrictL'CI gifts address basic needs in specific departments such as the need for equipmffit or funds for spt..'Ci :.1 projects." Jeffcoat said . "Unre­stricted gifts provide the financial flex ibility to meet the uni\'ersity 'l> most immediate Cl nd most pressing needs on a yt.lilr-by-year b:.s.is. We h<lve to be btrong in both areas to be Cl gre,lI u ni­versity and the numbers show that our d onors realize that ."

Western President Thomas C. Meredith is well aW,He of the Student Phonothon's role ill the fu­tllTe of the university. ''The continued pilltern of private giving is" testimony to the 10Y<llty of our alumni and friends. They believe in our mission and many lI re giving (or the first time," 5<lid Meredith.

Departments Accou nting - Dr. Rich Ald ridge

Agriculture - Or. Luther l lughcs

Allied Health - Dr. Ru by Meador

COllege of Business - Dr . Robert

Puls ine lli Communication a nd Broadcasting-

Dr. R<lndy Ca p ps

Computer Science-

Dr. Kenneth L. Modesitt

Journalism· ]o--Ann Albers

Nuro;ing. Donna l3lackburn Bowling Green Business University­

Top O rendorf HarrY !'(,<lrt

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T he Phonothon began eleven years ago with a small group of student volun­teers. It has now grown to an annual

e"ent including the efforts o f more than 400 students. These same students will be on the other end of the phone line after gradu"tion. And Cheri Beth I{q (Wi nch'15ter senior) lInd Dwight Adkins (Ashl.lIld senior) believe that to ~ the "Clbsolute be~ t rClIson to get campus groups involved in the phonothon now so they'll appreciate their efforts even more after grildulltion," Rose said .

Manpower co-chairpersons Rose and Adkins - last year's co-ch"irpersons, too! - were instru­ment"l in designing competition among Greek orgllnizations. First and S('Cond place winners were determined by the highest total doU"r pledge and were aW"rded plaques at an appre­ciation dinner ilt the home of President Clnd Mrs. Meredith. "We knew if we could get as many fraternities and sororities and other stu­dent organizations itwolved now as we could, thClt SCline nucleus would become active givers long lIfter leaving Western," Adkins said.

D r. Luther Hughes, head of the Agricul­ture Department, emphasized the ulti­mate rC;lson for the Student Phonothon

wi th this comment: "Each and every gi ft s trcnsthens Western Kentucky University by helping to provide fi nancial aid, improve class­rooms and equip ment, and support new aca­demic programs."

The Al umni Annual Fu nd / Student Phonot­hon hilS your number - answer "nd give· an investment in W,,'Stem is an investment in qual­ityeducation.

FA~l 1990 / 7

n,e Virgil/in Wood Dnvis

Journalism Endowment

Described as a

stllrdy ilfdividlla/ist

alld trail blazer ill

world of 20tl, cen­

tllry American jour­

tlalism, she exempli­

fied gritty, deter­

mined reporting

with a passioll for

acC/{ racy. She was

lIIIfalterillgly fruga l.

V rginia Wood Davis began a 42-year love af­fa ir with journalism as a reporter for the College Heights Herald.

Described as a sturdy individualist and tr,1i1 blazer in the male-dominated world of 20th cen­tury American journalism, she exemplified gri tty, determined reporting with a passion for accuracy. She was unfalteringly frugal.

Her first job after graduating from Western in 1943 was as a reporter in Henderson, where she earned 524.36 a week. Forty- two years and 12 papers later, she retired as managing editor of The McCreary County Record. In that job she eMned 5325 a week.

But when Virginia Wood Davis died Feb. I, 1990 in Tampa, Aa ., she left an estate of about $400,OCXJ.

By designa ting that 80 percent of her estn te be given to Western Kentucky University "to pro­vide scholarships for na-dy, journa lis tica lly promising students and for the improvement of print media instructions and journa lism," Vir­ginia Wood Davis left a legacy of considerable signific,1nce.

On June 26, when executor James Taylor pre­sentt.>d a check for 5276,800 to President Thomas Meredith and Ja-Ann Albers, head of the journal­ism dep.1rtment, the contribution was the largest ev(' r given by an individual. It is still the ln rgest contribution to nn ncademic progrilm at Western.

Taylor S<lid the jou rnalism dep<lrtm('nt will get about $25,000 more when the estate is closed in February.

A scholarship endowment and a "living en­dowment" have been established . Th(' depMt­ment plans to select four Virginia Wood D<lvis Scholars each yea r. The students-one in each class-will receive in-state tuit ion scholarships, perhaps as early as this fall.

Ms. Albers sa id the department plans to use the Jiving endowment tu attract other money fro m foundations and individuals.

"The department wants to build from an al­ready good und ergraduate program to spread th(' influence of OUT journalism program, in­cre.1se the cultur<l l di versity of students and filc­ully, increase servic(' to the journalis m commu­nity, enha nce the quality and profcssioll<llism of the faculty and enhance the likelihood of suc­cessful ca reers for our graduates," Ms. Albers S<lid.

At a meeting earlier this summ('r, Ms. Albers and Hal Jeffcoat, director of development, talked with Ga nnett Foundation o fficials about two pro-

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posals. The foundation is expected to consider requests from Western fo r more than 5377,OCXJ this fall.

TIle Davis gift is expected to relieve one of th(' department' s major shortcom ings-the abscllce of any compu ter-ou tfit ted classrooms. Ms. Al­bers sHid the first step \Vii! be to get compu ters for faculty members so they can become familiar with teaching opportunities that com puters pro­vide in the classroom.

Ms. Albers S<1 id that Virginia Wood Davis probably would have been amused and dis­tressed by reports of her contribution to Western and her estate. The first news of the contribution ind icated that the journalism department was going to get about $70,000. But the name of the person in Aorida who had ca lled with the infor­mation-and the exact name of the bencf<lctor­weren't certain .

Later, when the first news story WilS published in Florida, it was reported that the l'Stilte amou nted to $2.5 mil lion, with $2.1 million h<lv­ing been given to friends before Ms. Davis died .

"Virginia Wood Davis wouldn' t have tolerated inaccurate reporting and exaggeration," Ms. Al­bers S<lid . II appears that she S<lcrificed family­who knows what elsc--fo r a ca reer in journal­ism. Newsp.lpering was what she wanted to do, and the pursuit of news was all-important."

Note: Virginia Wood Dnvis wrote a 194-['<1ge typewritten "utobiogr<lphy, "Out of Vi rgini,, 's Woods," which tr;lces her genealogy and chron­icles her experiences. She also wrote her own obitua ry (which follows), instructions for her cremiltion and a will that left her estate to 17 friends and relatives and to the joufll.1 lism d e­pa rtment at Western.

Virginia Wood Davis was born Dec. 7, 1919, in Smiths G rove, Ky.

She graduated there in 1938 from high school, and in 1943 from WesteTll Kentucky State Teach­ers College where she studied journalism ilnd served on the college newspapers st;lff.

She cnten.>d d;lily newspaper reporting in 1943 at the I iend C'rson Glea ner-Journal.

She moved out into the field again with;nbs at the GrC('r (S.c.) Cit izen and the Southwest Times at Pulaski, Va ., "nd settled in for nine years in 1946 as s tate news editor of the Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News Daily.

She moved on in 1955 to 11 news bureau job in the WintC'r 1{0rM! Colony of Aiken, S.c., and then on to the Savannah (Ga .) Evening Press as a CQlllillll<~1 Oil page 21

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WKYU-FM Celebrates 10 Years Tum your rariio 011 alJri hear WKYU-FM's gain cOllcert--or plflll to attelld

L ight the C<lndles, toss the confetti, hang the s treamers and b.11100IlS. Western's public radio scrvice-WKYU-FM- will mark its tenth anni-vers.lry in No\'ember.

To ceiebr"te this mo-­mentous event, WKYU will pr\..'SCnt a ga l" con­cert fe<l turing the multi­t;llented s tar of Bro.1d ­way, opera, and coun­try-western music, Gary Morris, in concert wit h the Bowling Green / W\..'Stern Symphon y Or­chestra.

"The anniversary cele­bration concert with Gary Morris and the Bowl ing G reen /Western Symphony will be the highlight of our tenth annivcrs.uy and ou r <In­nual membership drive," S,lYS David Wilk­inson, Di rector of Public Radio. "The s tation's an­Ilua l membership drive will s tart the d ily before the concert ;lnd run through 5.1turday, No-­vember 10. Since WKYU-FM's beginning in 1980, the lis teners and underwriters have pra­vid \..>d support in excess

GARY MORRIS CONCERT Sunday, November 4, 1990 3:00 p.m. Van Meter Aud itorium Tickets (502) 745-5489

of $450,000.00. We're looking forwa rd to our tenth membership drive being the lx'St yet," he continued.

In just ten ye<lTS, Western's public radio service h<ls grown to be the Inrg­est radio service in the sta te of Ken­tucky. Iwgi nning operations in November, 1980 with 100,00 watts, WKYU- 88.9 FM now includes

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programming to over sixty percent of Ken­tucky, plus north-central Tenncsscc and south­ern Indiana.

In four of the last fi ve years, WKYU-FM has won the Kentucky Ed uca tion A.ssociation School Bell Award for the best rildio coverage of (>ducation issues in th(' st<ltc. The r<ldio serv­ice is annually n .. 'CognizL-d by Associa ted Press for its outstanding news programs, and last year the s tation's Mid-Day Ediliml news pro-­gram was honored by the Public Radio ews Director Association as the best such program in the nation.

Support for WKU's publiC radio service com('S from the Universi ty, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the lis teners, area businesses and orgilni7 .. at ions. Currently, there arc over 1,800 supporting members, plus fifty­three businesS<.'S support for programs heard in the s tation.

Some of WKYU- FM 's most important fea­turcs-.lnd what makes it such a quality rad io service-is Ihatthe station operates 24 hours per day, every day of th(' y('il r and is staffed by prof('SsionHls, students and community volun­teers.

Happy Annivers.1TY WKYU-FM and may you have many mor~ years of recognition and celebration.

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Miss Kentucky/Miss Western Nancy Cox (HId AmI Drew ry got a competitive edge at lYKU

W estern Kentucky Universily gave Iwo young women the incentive to achieve in the Miss America pageant system . Nancy Jane Cox, Miss Bowling Green and a summa cum laude (..oducation graduate of West­ern, was crowned Miss Kentucky July 14. Betsy Ann Drewry, Miss Western Kentucky University and a commu nications graduate ~tudcnt, was named first runner-up.

"Western gave me the personal attention I needoo to feel specia l," Cox Sol id . "I had several professors who look a personal interest in me and made me feel like I could made 11 difference in educa tion,"

"I like Western a lot- I'm not just s,lying that bcc.,USC I'm Miss Western. Everyone has been so friendl y there!" Drewry said.

For both women, thc path to the top was not easy. This was Cox's fourth year at the Miss Ken­tucky p<,scant. The 23-year-old Campbellsville resident was a top 10 finalis t in the p.lgeant in 1987 and 1988 and was fourth runner-up in \989.

"Ueing Miss Kentucky was something I' ve al­ways wanted to do," shc said . " I don't ever re­member not wanting to be Miss Kentucky."

"Each year in the p..lgeants Ilearncd new things I wanted to work on- things to do to improve my potential," she said.

For Cox, improving her potential mcant training almost full time before the Miss Kentucky pag­eant.

" I ran about eight miles a day, and worked out with weights and rode a stationary bike. I also had to kL-cp up on currcnt events. Si nce my back­ground is education, I worked to form opinions on the education reform act. I also worked on my talent prcscntation-I sang 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and I was taking lessons in Lexington. I guess it was worth thc drive," shc laughed.

Even though she was satisfied with her per­formance in the preliminilTy cOIllp.:!tilions, Cox said she had no idea she'd win .

"The competition this yea r was the tought'St I've ever faced," she s.aid.

Drewry said she was nervous the fi rs t p..lrt of the week before the pageant. " I remember going into the interviews and watChing the judges for non-verb,l l clues-I kept thinking 'Do you like me?' or '00 you hate me?' the whole time."

" I was really surprised when I won first runner­up lx.'causc I honestly didn' t think I'd even be in the top 10," she said. " I felt I wasn't picking up good signals from the judges."

Nancy Jane Cox Miss Kelltllcky

"Westcm gave me the persollal attell­tiOIl f /l eeded to fed special, I had sev­eral professors who ... made me fcel like 1 could made a dif­ferellce ill edllca­tiall."

Betsy Ann Drewry Miss WI's t !!", Ke/ltllcky lI/1iV/'rs ity

"f've leamed to sel a gool a"d break tllat dowII i"to the tactics I'll Heed to meel Illal goal."

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Drewry s.lid she had been in the Miss America prcliminark'S before-in the Miss Tennessee pro­gr.1m twice before, and was second runner-up in 1988.

"My mind had Ix. ..... n un school all yea r," she said. "l3ut when I heard about the Miss Wes tern pageant, I thought since I already had my clothes, I could usc the money for school. Also, this will be my last pagea nt."

The Murfreesboro, Tenn., resident is 26, thc fi ­nal year that women can compete in the Miss America pageant system.

Drewry learned about the Miss Western P.lg­ea nt while on a break from a night d.1SS.

" I W.15 reading 11 bulletin bodrd .1nd SolW an ad­vertisement fur it," she said.

The pageants arc great for self-improvemen t, she Solid .

"In trying to prepare for them, I've changed my attitude to that if I do my oc'St, I c.ln win," she Solid. "In preparing for them, I' ve learned to set a g0.11 and break that down into the tactics I'll need to meet that go.ll."

C ox and Drewry competed before the Miss Kentucky pageant. Iklth were contestants in the Miss Western pageant, where Cox was first run­ner-up.

"I remember telling Na ncy that we were repre­senti ng Wes tern well (a fte r the Miss Kentucky pageant)," Drewry s.lid.

Drewry plans to finish her master's degree studies, then hopes to become involved in the music industry.

Cox Solid she hasn' t decided where she will fin­ish her master's s tudies. Most of her plans are on hold until the completion of the Miss America pageant in September.

She will leave for Atlantic City Aug. 27. "I'm very excited," she said . "It's an over­

whelming honor 10 be among the 51 girls chosen for the p..lgeant, especially when you think how it began earlier this year with thousands of gi rls across the country."

"I don't feel any pressure to go there and win, or even be in the top 10," she Solid. " I jus t want to go there and represent Kentucky to the best of my ability."

Rebecca Morris 1990 grailuate

October 2·7 Homecoming Activities and Departments

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'KU-GLAS,GO'NBARBECUE Tuesday, October 2, 6:00 p.m. Homecoming Barbecue-Glasgow Campus. Vari­ous activities and entertainment including the an­nouncement of the WKUlGlasgow Homecoming­Queen candidate. Call 5021651-6399 for further information and reservations.

" W" CLUB Saturday, October 6, 11:00 a.m. Brunch - Diddle Arena Lobby. Make reservations through the Office of Athletics at 5021745-3542.

WOMEN 'S VOLLEYBALL Saturday , 10:00 a.m Volleyball alumni vs. WKU Volleyball team. Diddle Arena.

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT Saturday, 12:00 noon Chemistry Alumni Luncheon. Downing University Center ' $7.00 per person. Reservations - call 5021745-3457.

COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND WKU STUDENT CHAPTER OF ACM Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 11 :00 a.m. Brunch, TCCW 116. Brief presentations by alumni. Alumni interested in making a presenta­tion should contact John Crenshaw - 5021745-4642.

DEPARTMENT OF ALLIED HEALTH Saturday , 8:30 a.m. - 11 :00 a.m. Continuing Education Course - TBA. Room 217 • Academic Comple)(

Saturday , 11 :30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Allied Health Alumni Brunch. Second floor lobby - Academic Complex - call 5021745-2427 for res­ervations.

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING Saturday , 10:30 a.m. Second Annual Reunion Brunch, Downing Uni· versity Center - Au)(iliary Dining Room. 1970 and 1980 A. D. and B. S. graduates Will be recog­nized. Tour of Nursing Department to follow brunch . Contact the Nursing Department for fur­ther information and reservations - 5021745-3391.

DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM Saturday, 11 :30 a.m.

Heights Herald Brunch, Garrett Confer­Ballroom. Call 502/745-2653 for fur-

l'm,al;(lO and reservations.

, 1:30 p.m. will gather at the Journalism tent

on the lawn of Downing University Cen-

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Saturday , 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Department of Journalism Reunion, Journalism tent - Festival Area.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SAFETY Saturday, 12:00 noon Alumni Luncheon - Downing University Center -Room 226. Call 502/745·4797 for additional infor· mation and reservations.

RESIDENCE LIFE Saturday , 11 :00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. All residence hall lobbies will have receptions wel­coming alumni who previously lived in a residence hall. Refreshments will be served and prizes will be given for Umost mature returning resident" and uresident who traveled the farthesC Call 5021745-2037 for further information.

KENTUCKY MUSEUM CURRENT EXHtBITS Saturday, 9:30 a.m.· 4:00 p.m. (Sunday, October 7,1 :00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) ~The Kentucky Building: Continuing the Dream" -the 50th Anniversary Exhibit "Main Street: A Mirror of Changen

"Growing Up Victorian" "Kentucky Music Makers· "Sh-Boom: An Explosion of Fifties Fashion" The Kentucky Museum

Saturday , 9:00 a.m .• 5:30 p.m. (Sunday, 1:00 p.m.· midnight) ·Student life at Western: From the Beginning" Photographs of students from 1911 - present · an absolute "must" for the homecoming weekend. The Archives Gallery· Margie Helm Library.

KENTUCKY MUSEUM UPCOMING EVENTS November 15, 1990 - November 14, 1991 "A Change of Style: Furniture from the Kentucky Museum" Funded by Bowling Green Bank and Trust and HCA Greenview Hospital.

October 20, 1990 "Octoberfest" Kentucky Museum Associates' fund raiser for the museum. Call Adele Kupchella at 502/745·5084 for funher information and reservations· don't miss it!

HOME ECONOMICS AND FAMILY LIVING DEPARTMENT Saturday , 12:00 noon -1 :30 p.m. Buffet Luncheon . $5.00 per person. Academic Complex Dining Room. Make advance reserva­tions with pre-payment directly to the department. Call 502/745-4352.

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Govemor Appoillts Presidellt to So lttltem Regiollal Educatioll Board

Gov. Wallace G. Wilkinson has appoin ted WKU Presi­dent Thomas e. Mer(.'<I ilh to scrve on the Southern Re­giona l Education Board (SRE B), the nation'S firs t in­ters tate compact for the ad­vancement of education.

The SREB is an organi.la­tion devoted 10 identify ing and directing attent ion to key issu£'S in education. The SREB also coll£!Cts, compil£'S and analyzes comp-Mable educational data and con­ducts studk'S on educational concerns and initiates discus­sions directed to state and in­s titutionallong-range plan­ning, act ions and policy pro-­pDS<lls affecting ed ucation.

The l5-member 5REB states an': Alab.1ma, Arkan­SolS, Florida, Georgia, Ken­tucky, Louisiana, M<l ryland, Mississi ppi, North C<lrolina, O kl<lhoma, Sou th Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia .l nd West Vi rgini<l.

In <ldd it io l1 to Gov. Wilkin­son <lnd President Meredith, other Kentucki<lns scrving on the Bo.1rd arc: former Gov. Edward T. Bre<l thill of Cad iz, 5t.l te Sen. Ed Ford of Cyn thiana <lnd Charles T. Wethington Jr., interim president of the Universi ty of Kentucky.

Spriug Eurollmellt Up 4.1 % Over Last Year

Western Kentucky Uni\'er­s ity had the largest number of students ever for a spring scmester, according to the fi­nal enrollment figures for spring 1990.

The fi nal total University headcount was 13,890 com-

pa red to last spring's record 13,333 shldents, accord ing to Registrar Freida Eggleton.

Women represent 58.9 per­cent and men 41. t percent of enrollment, Eggleton said. Undergraduates total t 1,846 and graduate students num­ber 2,044.

A breakdown of u nder­graduate classes shows: freshmen, 3,749; sophomores 2,649; juniors 2,319 and scn­iors 2,564.

Westem to Implemellt Meally-Hollalld ACCOlllltillg Professorship

Western Kentucky Univer­sity Pr£'Sident Thomas C. Meredith has a nnounced fund rais ing efforts fo r a new professorship in accounting have reached the point where a search can begin to fill the post.

The Mea ny-Holland Profes­sorship in Accounting, named after two former dis­tinguished teachers at the Bowling Green Business Uni­versity, is the resul t of efforts by thrcc Bowling Green busi­nessmen: jo T. Orendorf, Ha­rold E. Kelley <l nd Harry e. Peart. The Bowling Green Business Universi ty (BU ) was <l forerunner to WKU's Col­lege o f fjusiness Administra­tion .

"Western Kentucky Un iver­si ty is indeed gra teful to these gentlemen for initiating such a worthy tribute to two faculty members who were dedicated to their profession and to s tudents at WKU," President Meredith said.

Fundraising by Business University alumni led by the three began in 1982, and the camp.lign has resulted in nearly 5215,000, accord ing to WKU Development Director Hal Jeffcoat.

The professorship will be implemen ted fro m earnings, with the idea to ewntually f\l1ld a cha ir, if su fficient

funds arc raised.. jeffco..1t Solid contributions

conti nue to be made to the fund, and persons interested in doing so may cont.lct the development office.

Also, provisions c.11I for 25 percent of the earnings 10

supplement the Dcp<lrtment of Accounting's operating budget for facul ty develop­ment, and to percent to be re­turned annually to the corpus of the trust fund to <l lso (.'S tilb­lish both a jmnes R. Me<lny professorship and a j.e. HoI­land professors hip.

Dr. Jack O. Hall, he<ld of WKU's Dcp.lftmenl of Ac­cou nti ng, SolYS a national SC<l rch will be conducted fo r <I n outs tand ing individ ual in the are.l of accounting who h<ls excellent credentials to add to the university'S dep.1rt­ment which has approxi­mately 475 accounting majors and has an <lverage of 70 graduates a year.

James R. Meany became as­sociated with the Business University in the mid 19205. He bega n the praclice of pub­lic accou ntancy in the 194{)s in Bowling Green and in 1951 found l"<l the fi rm of Jam(.'S R. Meany <l nd AssociatL'S.

J.c. Hollmld joined the Busi­ness Universi ty in 1933, w hile he also engaged in priv<l te pr.l ct ice in <l ccotmtancy in Bowling Green. l ie was War­ren County auditor for m<lny years.

Robert L. Chambless is Swo rn ill as Regent

Robert L. Chambless Jr. of Munfordville took the o,lth of office to serve a four-yea r tenn on Western Kenhlcky University's Bo.1rd of Regents at a special meeting of the board June 27.

Kentucky Court of Appeals Judse Ch<lrles H. Reynolds administered the o<lth of office 10 the pTl'Sident of Hart County Ban k and Trust in Munfordville who was ap-

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Robl'rt L. Clwmbh'SS Ir.

pointed by Gov. Wallace Wil kinson to replace Rona ld W. Clark of Franklin on the IO-member governing body.

Chambless holds a bachelor's degree in political science and busin(.'SS from Eastern Kentucky University and master's degrees in public service counseling and per­sonnel work, and vocational and career ed ucation from WKU.

l ie scrved as president of the Mu nfordville Chamber of Commerce from 1979 to 1981 and is a member of the WKU and EKU alumni associ<l tions and the WKU Hill topper Ath­letic Foundation.

He is married to the former Cheryl Chesney w ho CtIT­

renlly serves as director of <ld­missions at WKU.

Following his swearing-i n, Chambless told oo.lrd mem­bers:

"How do I feel aboul West­ern? I love it!" he Solid.

Dr_ U v ingstoll Alexander is Highest Ranking Millorih) Administrator

A former psychology profes­sor at Western Kentucky Uni­versity has returned to the c.lmpus to assu me dutil'S as associate vice president fo r aC<ldemic affairs.

Dr. Livingston Alexander,

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who was a member of WKU's faculty from 1977-1988, is the high£'St ranking black admin­istrator at the university.

Western's newest adminis­Ir.ltor has an extensive list of research publications, funded gr<l nts in the thrcc--figure r,lnge, and professional con­su lt<l ncies, and he returns to Western from Georgia South­ern College in St.ltesboro, Ga., where he W<lS dep.lTtment head and p rofesso r of EdllCa­tion<l l Fou ndations and Cu r-ricul um.

He <l lso served on numerous

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task fo rces and com mittees w hen he was ,lt Western.

" I k'cl like the most fo rtu­nate person in the world," So1id Alexander, 42. "I <lin

going fro m one situation w here there has been so m uch positive su pport to another here at Western. I am ex­tremely excited about joining an outst<lnding administrative team <lnd a faculty, and also a popu lation of very capable students.

"Western is a \"Cry exciting place to come to right now, where it appears the univer­sity is receiving support from the sta te, a new strategic plan is in progress and there is grea t potential fo r faculty

growth and renewa!." he Solid.

WKU President Thom<ls C. Meredith said : "I am de-

lighted that Livingston Alex­ander has agra>d 10 return to WKU. He is an outstanding professiona l and w ill be a ma­jor asset for us."

Alexander Solid he is looking forwa rd to "picking up some initi<llives" that were Slarted at Western before he left two ye<lrs ago. O ne of those will be in the are<l of stud ent out-comes assessment.

exander had served as acting associate vice president for academic affairs, and prior to that was assistant to the vice president for a year. He was a tenured professor in the university's department of psychology where he scrved as coordinator of cdUc.1tional psychology.

" I fcellike Western has \x'Cn F doing some real good teach-ing, <l nd the perception among a c students <I t Western I h<lve u 1 t Y found arc th<lt <I t Western people C<l red."

Alexander s.l id he will work on ways to d ocument and convey to the public "both quali tat ively <l nd qtl<lntita­lively that WKU is a qU<l lity insti tution and that it is doi ng what the people want itto do."

Alexander s,lid he will also focus attention upon facu lty development.

" I have had a great de<l l of personal experience taking ad­v.lntage of growth and re­newal opportunies," he Solid, <ldd ing: "I know how these experiences have helped me personally to grow in my ca­reer, and I W<ln t to be <lble to help faculty in sharing this re­newaJ."

Dr. Robert V. Ilaynes, vice p resident fo r aC<ldemic <l ff<l irs <It WKU, s<l id of Dr. Livingston's <l ppoinllllent:

"Dr. Alexa nder has special talents in Ihe areas of ou t­comes assessment and faculty development, and he will be a valuable

member of ou r admin istra­tive s taff. He is an outs tanding young administrator who works well with faculty and students."

Alexander has the master's and doctoratedegrccs in edu­cation from Ihe University of Houtson, where he was a teaching fellow whi le working on his doctor<l te in educa­tional psychology.

Prior to his leaving WKU in 1988 fo r Georgia Sou thern, AI-

Professor Named to Hall of Fa ille

A Western Kentucky Univer­sity professor of journalism WitS one of three honorees re­cently inducted into the Ken­hlCky Journalism 11.111 of Fame.

As a lifetime member, James Driscoll Ausenbaugh will be honored with a plaque, featur­ing his picture <lnd a descrip-

tion of what he has accom­plished, hanging in the Hall of Fame housed in the Depart­ment of Journalism at the Uni­versity of Kentucky.

Ausenb.1ugh was nominated by WKU colleagu£'S, students and former students from as far away as Missouri and flor­id a, end orsi ng his contribu-

tions to journalism. " I think of mysclf as an ordi­

nary person, and it pleases me a lot to see an ordin<lry person sclected, and not somcone with a big name and a big reput<llion," Ausenbaugh s..lid.

A professor al Western since 1976, Ausenb.1ugh h<ls worked for various P.1pers across Ken­tucky and Southern Ind iana, including the Evansville Pr(.'Ss as a sports writer, a co-pub­lisher fo r Ihe Cu mberlmld County News, and as are­gion<l l edi tor fo r Ihe Louisvi!le Courier Journal. In 1986, Auscnb<lugh was honored on campus when he was cic-cted "Teacher of the Year."

Asid e from teaching news­paper editi ng and editori<ll and fe.ltme writi ng in the na­lionally-accl<l im(.>d jou rnal ism department at Western, Ausenbaugh also spends time consulting newspaper editors and staff members across the country. Depending on the state of the publication, Ausenbaugh has spent any-

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where from one day to an en­ti re summer co,lchi ng staffers on lips concerning journalist ic style, editing and w riting tech­niques.

Auscnb.1ugh, originally from Dawson Springs, lives in Scottsvi lle with his wife, Faye. He has four daughters and scven grandchild ren.

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Carl R . Martray Named

of Ed ucation, he had served as program director of the Joncs-Jaggers L,lboratory School and Center for Child Learning and Study as well as coordinator of graduate studies in the College of Edu· cation and Behavioral Sci­ences.

Deall, College of Edltcatioll alld Belravioral Sciellces

Dr. Carl R. Martray, assis· lant dean for administration and graduate studies in the College of Education and Be­havioral Sciences, has been namt."<i dean of the college to replace Dr. J.T. S.lndefur who has retired.

Martmy, a native of

The din.--ctor of Western Kentucky University's Dance Company has been honored for her achievements that in­cludes other notable recipi. ents such as Mikhail B..lryshnikov_

Beverly Vcenker, assistant professor of dance at WKU, was presented with an Out· st,mding Faculty Award by Dance Educators of America at the organi7..ation's July award!> banquet in New York City. She rcccivt.-d this honor in recognition of her efforts in developi ng the academic principles, artistic ideals and interest of thc DEA members and the dance profession as a whole.

Veenker, who joined the WKU faculty in 1960, has oc'Cn a mcmber of DENs Teachers Training School fac· ulty for 15 years, and has served as assistant princip..11 since 1978.

The DEA is a top national organiZiltion that recoglHzes quality dance teachers and professionals. "Its main focus is to bring quality to the pro-­fession," Vccnker said.

TI1e DEA award ca n go to teachers, choreographers, pro­fess ional performers, produc­ers or "anyone who has made a contribution to the field of dance," Veenker s..lid. Others who have received this award arc: Gregory I lines, Mickey Rooney, Mike Bennett, Gelsey

Connellsville, Pa., h,lS been a member of Western's faculty since 1971. His appointment became effective July 1.

Dr. Martray is a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology, and prior to his appointment in 1986 as assistant dean in the College

"One of our major go.lls will be to rt.'Slxmd to the chal· lenges of t."<iucat ional reform in the public schools. Ken­tucky has taken a major step, and WKU's College of Educa· lion and Behavioral Scienct.'S

Dallce Director Receives Top HOllor

lkt",rly Vecllker, riglll, assislilul profl:SS()r of rilllIC/! 1111/1 dITl"Clor 01 lill'dllllCC COl11pmly lit Wesle"" feeieved 1111 OlllSllllldillg IIward from Dlmcc Ellurotors of Amaiea ill /lily III DEA's IIlIIuml bamilld ill N"WYUfk. Till' rnmrd f,-cos ­II1US Vt'!'/rkl."'$ efforts ill d~"OClopi'I,'{ Iii,' "clIIl,w"c pri/lc/pll'S, IIrl/slic 1,lmls 1I11d mlrresl of IiiI' DEA members lIud Ihe dlillce projt.'SSiOIl 11511 1I'lrole.

Kirkland, Ann Miller and B..1ryshnikov.

Vecnker has been both a dancer and a choreographer, but she says her first love is . teaching. "I like working with the students here at Western becausc lhey're excited about dance," she s..lid. "They' re fresh and they're new and they want to learn.

"About four or five weeks before the end of school each semester, I look at somebody who, at the beginning of the semester I thought, 'Oh my, what will I ever do with him or her,' and see them doing

things that they didn't believe they could do, and I wasn't sure they could do ... that 's ex· citing!"

Vecnker takes her responsi­bility to her students seri­ously. "Every time I get a young person who comes to college and says, 'I want to be a dancer,' I know what's in store," she said. "I've got four years to prepare this person to make it in a vcry competitive field."

During the four years of in­struction, dose ti(.'S develop, and the teacher and student relationship turns to a bond of

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will continue the leadership role it has already estab­lished," Martray s..lid. "An· other top agenda item will be to continue Western's state and national visibility in te,)Cher education as well as 10

maintain the high level of quality instmction of ,1 dedi· cated faculty."

Martray and his wife, Donna, have two daughters, L.1uri, 19, a sophomore in e.uly childhood education at WKU, and Nicole, 17, a senior at Bowling Green High School.

friendship, she s..1id. "I don't ever say goodbye to them. That's one thing I can't do. I always make myself SC,lTce during finals week, becausc I don't like big goodbye scen(.'S, and I'm sure I'm going to Si..'C them again."

Vcenker has a busy personal and professional life. In addi· tion to teaching, she m.1int,lins a home and a family, is a hos­pice voluntcer and chorco-­gr'lphs most of the major pro­ductions at WKU.

The creative process in· volved in choreographing a production sti ll remains a mystery to Veenker. "Chore­ography is like art," she said. "When I listen to music, r think dance. I don't know where the movements come from. I don't think any of us really understands the creiltive process. I think we spend a lifetime trying to figure it out."

Through teaching, Vcenker tries to sha re p..1rt of her crea· ti"ity with her students. "People who teach dance re­ally have to want to do that. You can st,lnd in fron t of stu· dents and dance ,lnd give a class, but it's different when you actually come in there and try to open their minds to the whole spectmm of dance," she s..lid.

"The success of my students is important to me. When they' re successful, then I'm successfuL"

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Eqllestrifm Tenm Nntiolltll Cllamps

Some of the top collegiate equestrian riders in the coun· try arc students at Western Kentucky University.

WKU's Equestrian Team and the team from Michigan Sta te University were named Co·nationa l Champions at the 17th Anl1uallntcrcollcgiale Ilorse Show Association's Na· tional Fina ls Horse Show hosted by St. L1wrence Uni· versily in Can ton, New York.

Western defeated the 17 other schools in Region Six in­cluding the University of Ken· tucky, Sou thern Illinois Uni­versi ty, University of Tennes· see, Middle Tenncssee State University, Morehead State University, Vanderbilt Uni· versi ty and other regional schools.

Team members competing at the niltional show were: Sus..1n Pfansticl and Holley Warren of Lexington, Ky., Sus..ln FJanigin and Tom Zoretic of Bowling Green, Ky., and Desiree Wilson of lIVing· ton, Ky.

Their co.1ch is Charles An· derson of WKU's Department of Agriculture.

Pfall!>tiel was awa rded a tro­phy 5ilddle and was named Na tional Champion Stock Scat Rider.

Western and Michigan Stale defeated Ca.f.enovia College, Texas A & M, Colorado State and Billl State as well as other regional winners to win the national title.

Bi%gy Honor Socieh} Receives Recognitiofl

Members of Western's L.Y. Lancaster Mu Gamma Chap­ter of Beta Beta Beta National Honorary Biologic,1l Society have return(.'<1 from their an~ nual regional convention with

newly earned rt.'Cognitions. Western's chapter of the Na·

tional Honorary Biological So-­ciety received first·place hon· ors for chapter activities docu· mented by Historian Philip David johnson in the org,lniz.1tion's scrapbook. johnson, a graduating senior biology major from Glasgow, also attended the annual con· \'ention of Beta Beta Bel,l held in B,lltimore, Md.

Charlotte Gill, a graduating senior from Allensville, pre­sided over Beta Beta Be ta's re· gionill paper competition. During the annual busint.'Ss mt.'Cting, Dylan Burgt.'Ss, a jun­ior from Radcliff, was elecH.'<I to serve as St.'crdary of the re­gion for the 199()..91 year, marking the fifth consecutive year thai a biology student from WKU has bt.'Cn chosen for a leadership position.

College Heights Herald, jOllma/ism Students HOlloreri

The College Heights Ilerilld, WKU's student newspaper, has been selected as the best 1101l·daily studel1tllcwsp..1per in region five of the Society of Professiono11 Journalis ts.

The Herilld, WKU's sllldent journalism professional chap­ter of The Society of Profes· sional Journa lists and five journalism students al West· ern were honort.'<I at the SPj's region five conference in Champaign, 111.

WKU's SPJ student chapter won the Fiver Award which goes to the most productive professional or student chap­ter in the region.

Students who won first place individual writing and pho­tography awards included Cinthia Stevenson ofCoving· lon, editoriill writing; Thomas I !ernes, Pittsford, N.Y., best sports writing; Jeanie Adams of Bowling Green, best spot news photography; Steve Smart of Louisville, best fea·

ture photography and Omar Tatum of Louisville, best sports photography.

Winners will advance to compete against top finishers from the other 10 SPJ regions for national hOllors.

National winners will be an· 110unced and honored at the SPj nation,ll convention to be held in Louisville in October.

By virtue of their first place win in the regional competi~

tion, Western journalism stu­dents won the Sweepstakes Award which goes to the school with the highest point total.

"We feel exceptionally good about our standing, consider­ing the fact that ou r competi· lion in the region consists of two of the best journalism pro­grams in the nation, North· western and Indiana universi­ties," s..lid Jim Highland, WKU SI'J adviser.

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FOllr Na med to 51HZ Belt AI/-Academic Team

selected by a vote of the fac· ulty reprcscntatives from each of the league's eight institu· tions. All nomin ....... 'S main· tilined a minimum 3.0 (on a 4.0 sca le) grade-point average for the 1989-90 academic year.

Western led the Conference with four student·athletes on the AlI·Academic Team, fol· lowed by South Florida with three. No other school had more than one member.

In addition, Western had il league-high 39 student·ath· letcs nilmed to the Sun Belt Academic I lonor Roll O.O-or­better for the school yea r). Overall, WKU had 4J athletes honored by the Conferencc for thei r achievements in the classroom. UNC Cha rlotte (33) and Alabama at Birming· ham (32) rankt.'<I Sl.'COnd and third, respectively, behind Western.

This marks the second str'light year that WKU ath· letes hilvc led the Sun Belt in the number of students hon· ored fo r academic achieve­ment.

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Four Weslern Kentucky , I University athletes have been I named to the annual Sun Belt conference A1I·Academic I Tea m for the 1989·90 school I year.

Representing Western on the team are: Rachel Allen· der (volleyb.l11), a senior bio­chemistry major for Alexan­dria, Ky.; Jeff Guest (goIO, a senior marketing major from L,lGr.lnge, Ky.; Michael Lutz (cross--country), a senior ceo-­nomics major from Manitou, Ky.; and Kelly Smith (women's b.1sketball), a jun­ior biology major from Lon­don, Ky.

The sun Belt All·Ac,ldemic Team consists of 10 individu· als, one representing each of the Conference's 10 champi­onship sports. The team is

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DR JERRY MARTIN

('58) 1990 Doctor of the

Year, Chllirmllll of

the Boord of Direc-

tors of the L. Y.

[.al/casier Memorial

Lectures/lip Society

.. Dr. L Y. Lnllms­

ler taught zoology

and comparative

Illlatomy while I was

at Wes/erll, Ilnd, af­

fer his death, I

w(lIIted fa do some­

tiling 10 hOllor !tis

memory"

The fr.lmcd photograph hangs in the doctor's reception area and is entitled "Sunset on the Hill­top" capturing the silhouette of W(>Slcrn's high­est point-the dome of Cherry 1-\;111.

And when one takes a closer look, the sign<l­lure in the lower right hand corner is tllilt of Dr: Jerry Martin: Western's team phYSician (a ll sports) fo r twenty years, Presidents Club mem­ber, Hilltopper Athletic Foundation member, Chairman of the Bo.lTd of Directors of the L Y. Llllcastcr Memorial Lecture Society at Westem, and most recently, named the 1990 Doctor of the Year by the Kentucky Academy of Family [lhysi­cians-the highest award given by the Academy.

Martin, a 1958 Western Kentucky University gradua te, is a general practitioner of nu.>dicine in Bowling Green where his small office is abso­lutely packed full of trophies for his photogra­phy, plaques for memberships in mcclic.ll socie­ties and awards for active p..1Tlicip.ltion in con­tinuing medical education.

Even though he is dedic,lted to the field of medicine and his photography hobby, Martin's face lights up at the mention of the L. Y. L.1.ncas­ter Memorial Lectureship Society where he servt.'S as the Chairman of the Board of DirC<"tors.

"Dr. L. Y. L.lncaster taught zoology and com­parative ana tomy while I was at Western, and, after his death, I wanted to do something to honor his memory," Martin said. "Two other physicians who were at Western at the S<1me times as I was-Dr. John Logan from Henderson and Dr. jim King from Lexington-we got to­gether, dC<"ided what we wanted to achieve and

Dr./trry Marti" ('58) rtCtil'ru thl'af!'llrd fur KflltuCky Doctor of the YttlT ;" May.

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founded the L. Y. L.1.ncaster Memorial lecture­ship Society," continued Martin.

Each year the Society invites a distinguished ledurer to speak on Western's campus and the evt'nt is open to the public without any charge. "This yea r's lC<"turer will be Ray Harm, the na­ture artist. Harm and Dr. Lancaster were very dose friends," Martin added.

Upon grad uation from Western, Martin en­tef(~ the University of Louisville School of Medicine and fC'CCivcd his degree in 1963. After completing an internship at the University of Louisville affiliated General Hospital in 1964, he entered private gener.11 practice in Bowling Green and became a member of the Kentucky Academy of General Practice and the Kentucky Medical Association.

Drafted from active practice in 1966, he was as­signed to the 18th Surgical Hospital MASH unil al Fort Gordon, Georgia and assisted in the reor­ganizatioll of the hospital into a functional com­b.lt unit for seryice in Vietnam. After deploy­ment to Pleika, South Victnam, he served with the 18th Surgical Hospital from 1966 to 1967. Af­ter returning to the U. S., Martin was director of Outp..1.tient Clinic at the U.s. Army Hospital at Fort Campbell. After receiving an honorable dis­charge in DC<"embcr 1%7, he returned to private p ractice in Bowling Green.

Martin considers himself a serious amateur photographer and his photographs have won many awards and have been displayed at nu­merous local and regional exhibits.

His portriat of George V. Page, former head of the Physics Department at Western, won a Blue Ribbon at the 1988 Kentucky State Fair. "I had a group down at 5..1I1y'S Rock one day ... Hugh Pucket, Willson Wood, Kelly Thompson and Oero Downing. I happened to take a picture of Dr. Page, a casual, candid photograph, he didn't know that I was making it and I entered it and won first place at the Sta te Fair in 1988:' Martin s,1.id. A copy was rt.'ccntly presented to Western and now hangs in the Physics Department.

Dr. jerry Martin, loyal supporter of his alma mater, talented photographer, dedicated family phYSician and the 1990 Kentucky Doctor of the yea r-<ongratulations!

Lllcindu Anderson Editor

L. Y. LANCASTER LECTURE SERIES Satu rday, October 27 6:00 p.m. Downing University Center Guest Speaker-Ray Harm

His looks betray the enthusiasm behind his work. AI Tompkins, senior special projects re­porter for WSM-TV, N(lshville, sits with his feet propped up on a long conference table, his shirt unbuttoned, his tic loose.

Tompkins is there to talk about his CMeer which has become international in scope and has earned for him and his station 22 major reporting awards.

"I have had the opportunity to make significant contributions to whatever problem I am looking into." Tompkins s,1.id.

In no way is Tompkins br(lgging about his .1chievements; what has happened occu rred be­cause of the kinds of stories in which he has ix.>cn involved, especialty in the last three years.

Tompkins left Western in 1980, three hours short of a college degree in, journalism to produce the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts at WPSO in Paducah, Ky.

He finished the college degree, and nine years later Tompkins is still producing; only now he's telling stories which have an enormous imp.lct on large numbers of people.

Imagine a garbage dump in Guatemala where Tompkins is t'lping one of a series of stories fo­cusing on poverty and the lack of medical care for children in this Third World count ry.

The dump is home to many of the chi ldren and also is their source of food.

"This series started when a friend, Alan Palmer (former W\3KO-TV news director in Bowling Green) told me to meet this unusual lady at the Nashville airport," Tompkins s,1.id.

"Alan s,lid she would have two children with her that she had brought from Guatemala for medical treatment in the United States," he s,1id.

Tompkins was there, and the meeting becamc his introduction to Judy Schwank, the wife of a Bowling Gret!n physician who was making regu­lar trips to Guatemala as the head of Ileal the children, an organization arranging surgical and mcclical trea tment fo r children from some of the most impoverished areas of the world.

"She (Schwank) told me 1 needed to go to un­derstand the story, and I pitched the idea" to sta­tion management, he said. In January 1988, Tompkins and a photojournalist were in Guate­ma la.

"Wha t we S,lW down there was unlike anything we had ever seen before," he s,1.id. "People wt!re living in the garbage dumps, trying to compete with pigs and wi ld dogs for food ."

Tompkins s,lid there were children with de­formed lips and cleft palates who were dying of starvation because they cou ld n't nuTSC.

And one young b.lby, Stephani Yat, had been burned from head to toe and W.1S in a hospital in Guatemala City, Her mother had c.lrried her from the countryside, one day's journey to the hospital.

"judy made arrangements for her to come out to a Louisville hospital," Tompkins s,lid, and "tis-

AL TOMPKINS WillI the Gltatemala

atld Haiti series, "we

saved some fives,"

Tompki"s said.

"Stephani Yat wOllld

/101 have beetl alive '1 we Ilnd,,'t beell

Ihere,"

sue from a breast reduction was used for the skin grafts. It worked infinitely well.

"I started following Stephani, and I probably will be doing Stephani stories as long as I work."

Two series of stories de\-cloped from the cover­age, Til., Road u.'Ss Tmvdl'd and TIlt' l.£ast of Tllese.

Tilt' Road u.'ss Trtwdell won for Tompkins and WSMV three national awards-Gabric1, Unity and Wilbur--..lnd a Radio and Television News Directors Association regional award.

Tire Least ofT/It.'SI' won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for international reporting, a Head liner AW(lrd including "Best of Show," an Associated Press documentary award and was a (ina list for the national Livingston and Inlernational Moni­tor awards.

Now imagine 5.1ndy and jerry Tucker, a Men­nonite couple in Liberty, Ky., who h.we 67 chil­dren in their home as part of their Galilean Min­isteries.

The children are from five foreign countries and eight 5t.ltes, and, Tompkins Solid, "e\'ery one of them is handicappt'd, physically, ment.llly or sexually abused or ab.1.ndoned. Everyone is a speci,11 nt.'eds child."

The Tuckers ha\'e adopted more than half of the children, and Tompkins s,1.id 5..1ndy Tucker told him they did it ":;0 Ihey will never leave."

The series, PreciOlls in His Sight, produced by Tompkins and photojournalist Pat Slattery, pro­vides a detailed look inside the Tuckers farm complex east of Lexington.

"The land, the Lord and the children. These ,1Te the posses­sions of the f.lithful," Tompkins said as he described the Tuck­ers'Mennonite lik'Style.

Bulthe story turns serious when Tompkins and Slattery ac­comp..1.ny Sandy b.1.ck to Port-au-

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Prince, Haiti, with a young Ilaitian girl who spent three and a half ye.lrs al the Tucker farm .

"What we found there was worse conditions than we fou nd in Gua temala," he said. "The whole country is in total d esperation. There is a gross lack of medical ca re, despite some valiant efforts by people who arc working there."

Tompkins and Slattery follow Sandy and a friend , Jane Sidert, who ministers to people in the slums. In the middle of n room in the ci ty's gen­eral hospit"\, with the camera rolling, a baby died.

A ne"rby oxygen t.lnk is empty. A nearby respi­rator is uscless. 11 r"'luires 220 vol ts, and the hos­pital is not equipped for it.

" In that wMd, the doctor told us 10 babies die every day," Tompkins said. "No sooner had he said that, thnn one of the babies went into card iac arrest and died. There W.1S no allemptto recesi­tate it.

"Death was just accepted, somet hing that hap­pened there," Tompkins said.

TI1e death more than anything else answers questions: why 5..1ndy Tucker has been to Ilaili eight times, why her friend from Memphis, Tenn., continuC"$ to work in the slums and wha t Tomp­kins and Slattery arc doing there.

Since the scries aired, more than $16,000, a bus, fcxxi and clothing have oc-cn d onatt.od to the Tuck­ers and their Galilea n Ministeties.

Tucker told Tompkins that Vanderbilt Univer­sity has agreed to d o surgery on a Haitian child, and count ry music entertainer Charlie Daniels has agreed to pay any cost the hospital won' t cover.

With the Guatemala and Ilaiti series, "we saved some lives." Tompkins said. "Sleph.lni Yat would not have blocn alive if we hadn't been there."

"We stood in the room and saw a b.lby girl die. No one gave a damn, and that's wrong. For us not to have put her in the s tory, that's wrong."

Tompkins s., id death squad s, violence and the terrible \iving conditions arc continuing in Haiti, and voodoo is pervasive.

"How can that happen?" he askt.-d. "It hap~ns because no one knows wh"t is going on. You can't believe the depth of the depression in th"t country. It's like another planet. It's hard to OC ... lieve we arc talking about our neighbors."

It's been six years since Tompkins won his last national Head liner Aw.ud for Doing Life for a Living, a series which focused on the relation­ships between inmates and guards and the dan­gers for guards working inside the fede ral maxi­mum secu rity prison at Marion, Ill.

At that time, he and photo;ournalist Rick Ge­nardi reprcscnted the first television news crew to go inside the walls at Marion, and one of the guards they interviewed, Eugene Clutts, was killed in a riot before the series aired.

"We had excellent footage-fights between in­Ill.ltes and guards and guards shooting inmates

with stun guns-and the series became an im­portant p.lrt of the na tional movement to get the death penalty fo r guys who kill prison guards," he s.lid.

The WSM reporter s.lid Guatemala, the Tuck­ers and the prison guard series arc the reasons why he would rather not work fo r a network television news organization.

His s tation, he said, has the commitment and the ability to dedicate resources to difficult proj­ects. Besides, he added, "You can't sec what we have seen and not do something about it."

Jim H iglrlalld Prof,'ssor of Jormw/islII

AI Tllm,rllkills. all /ocillion in Cuatemala 11'11("1' 111' lal"'Ii alit' 0(11 St'rr,,:; <if storres focusrrrg on /101. .. .,.,y /Iud tile /ad of mt~lical Cllre fur clrrldren rrr Ihe Third World.

RUPERT CRANLEY

FI/I llre Ellglish

Noblcmall Lnys

FO/II/dation at

Westcm

From the rolling hills of Essex County, England, to the "Hill" at Western, Viscount Rupert Cranley, the futu re Lord On!.low, laid the groundwork for his future at Western Kentucky University.

Four years "go, Cr,mley was at loose t.'nds "s he planned his future. Feel ing that an education OC'" yond what he had TCC(>ivcd at Eton Collt.'ge in Windsor Berks, England, was not important, he travelled 10 New York to work and visi t Dr. Bill Ploumis, a WKU alumnus, and his son, with whom Cranley had attended school. It was in New York that Cranley decided to continue his education, and, with the encouragement of Dr. Ploumis, came to Western in the fall of 1986.

He was among WKU's 2,564 graduates in 133rd ceremonies May 6 in E.A. Diddle Arena.

According to Cranley, the decision to come to Western was "absolutely at the right time" in his life. "It was a great learning experience," he said . "I enjoyed il a great deal."

SinO? he had s~nt ten years at bo.lrdi ng school, leavi ng home was not a problem for Cranley, and he quickly picked up on Ill<lny of the cultu ral differences. " I came with an o~n mind," he 5.1id .

Becoming involved with the activities of the

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Rugby Club allowed C ranley to make friends and bl'COme more involved in campus activities.

The English L-duca lional system is structured SO that a college-agt.' student focuses almost com­pletely on one particu la r subjecl area, whereas in the American college system, the s tudent studies a variety of general education subjects, as well as his m<ljor area . Accordi ng to Cra nley, "The bro.lder education (in America) givL'S you more time to think about what you wa nt to do and 'find yourself' ''. However, he $.lid , "Engla nd channels too early, and America, not ea rly enough." He S<lid a "halfw.1Y stage" would be id ea l.

Cranley, a philosophy and psychology double major, plans to enter the business of international real esta te. One day, the WKU graduate will in­herit his father's posilion in Britain's I louse of Lords.

Cranley'S fathe r, Lord Onslow, 5.1id he and his wife were extremely pleased with the effect WL'Stern h"s lwd on their son. "The combination of English and American educ.ltion is very good ," he 5.1id. i30.1rding school gave Cranley the "independence" he needed, while at WKU, he "was able to lake it (his studies) at his own pace.," he 5.1id . "In a ~rfcct world, I would add the best of each."

Carol Overby /ollrlmtism major

Professor Harry B. Gray, an internationally­known inorganic chemist, educa tor, and states­man in chemical sciences, is the 1991 wi nner of the American Chemical Society'S Priestley Med<ll, the nation's highest award in Chemistry.

Gray, .1 1957 Western gradua te, is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and director of the Beckman Institute at the California Insti­tute of Techno logy, and is being recognized for his many fundamental rcse.lTch contributions and distinguished services to chemistry over the last 25 years.

The solid gold Priestley Med<ll was institued by the AC5 in 1922 to commemorate the work of Joseph Priestley, the British-born discoverer of oxygen who emigrated to America in \79.\. The award will be prcscnted to Dr. Gray in April, 1991, <It the ACS Na tionalmL"Cting in Atlanta, Georgia.

A colle<lgue <It Cultech summed up Dr. Gray's contributions by 5.1ying that " All of Chemistry is deeply indebted to I larry for the vigor, life, and humor he has brought to it through his teach­ing-but especially inorganic chemist ry, which has become not only a truly great and interesting subjl..'Ct, but a fun subject as well."

Luciuda AudcrSfm Editor

Harry B. Gray "All of Chemistry

is deeply il/debted

to Harry [or the

vigor, life, and 111/ 4

1II0r lie has brollght

to it throllgll his

teachil/g"

TIr r Virginia WOOll5 / ollnra/ism [Ilt/ofllmr'rt . cou/mllt'lf from pa~ 8

reporter. In late 1956 she joined the s taff of the

Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser during the eX4

citement of the Dr. Martin Luther King civil rights movement.

From Montgomery she movt.'d to Iiollywood, Fla., to join the nt.'ws s taff of the suburban tri­weekly Su n-Tattler.

In 1958 she joined the Rock Hill (S.c.) Eve­ning Ileraid and returned to Florida in 1960 to report for the Tampa D.lily Times.

In 1969 she bec.lme the first women deskman on the Jacksonville (Fla .) Timt.'s-Union and scrved as its bureau chief at Bru nswick until she joined the 5t. Petersburg Times in 1970, one of the top 10 newSp.lpers in the United 5t.ltes.

She became news editor and chief reporter of the Dade City (FlaJ Pasco East and Pasco West News until she accepted her first newspaper job as gener<ll manager, managing ,-'ditor and reporter of the McCreary County Record at Whitley City, Ky., where she ret ired in 1985.

She received the J. Rion McKissick Award from the South Carolina Press A:.sociation in 1960 for best fe<lture of the year, and many awards from the Kentucky Press Associat ion including fi rs t place in investigative reporting.

She is survived by cousins, W.J. Chambliss III of Lexington and J. B..lird Chambliss of Cave City. Her ashes arc buried in the William Bird Rogers famil y cemetery in Goodnight in Barren County.

By Bob Adallls Director of Studt/lf PublicafiollS

OOM PAH PAH!

Make plans to attend The Kentucky Museum's

Oktoberfest S.lIurday, October 20,1990 Bowling GrL'('n, Kentucky

Contact Adele Kupchella for inform"tion: S()2/ 745-5084

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Students Go Underground

"Tt's sort of all ad-

veil/lire, every

place 0 11 ti,e Sllr-

face of ti,e eartll

lias beell eXI,lored

alld the Dilly III/ex­

plored places are

below the sllrface."

- Tom Gr,lnt

construction engineer

N('w York City

They come from as dose as Kentucky and as . fM away as Australia, all to s tudy underground.

Thei r b.lckgrounds arc varied-from the seri­ous ~tudent to the hobbyist gone haywire. The one thing they have in common is a 100'e of cav<.'S.

For the cave enthusi.lst, the place to be this summer was Mammoth Cave National Park, par­ticipa ting in the Karst Field Studi<.'S. The pro-­gra m is sponsored by the Center for Cave and Karst Studies at Western Kentucky University and Mammoth Cilve National Park.

The progr.1m offers a series of one-week courses combining lectu re <lnd field exercises, with ma ny of the participants stilying in a bunk house or camp si tes in the park. The courses, which can be ta ken for three hours of under­graduate or graduate credit , include kilTSt gL"OI­ogy, spclt!ology, exploration of Mammoth Cave, cave survey and cartography and kar:.t hydrol­ogy.

For many of the p.1rticipants, the courses offer a chance to formally study what \tas become a fascination.

"My brother took me caving about 14 years ago in West Virginia and [just fell in love with it," 50lid Bill Howcroft of Adams, Mass. kl kept on ca \' ing and dccided to study it and make.1 Cilr(!('r of i!."

Howcroft, a WKU graduate student studying ka rst hydrology, said this was the fi rst time he had ta ken a sum mer course like the one in kars t geology.

" [t's a reillly good course," he sa id. ''I'm leilrn­ing a 101.. .. I knew a little about the basic!> (of how caves were for med) but I didn't know the ddaib."

Some students have plans to apply wlli1t they arc lea rning.

Tammie Heazlit, a WKU student from Clark­ston, Mich., majoring ill hydrogeology and city and regional planni ng, is trying to nwp the 52-mile long Fisher Ridge cave system.

"Knowing how caves are developed and things that influenced thei r development are import.lnt for finding out where the c.wes are going to go and where you might find new passages," she said. "That's kind of the goal when you're work­ing on a mapping pro;ect."

Her roots in caving go much deeper, however. "My sister is a caver and I used to go and visit

her in California and she would take me caving on the weekends," Heazlit said. "I ust.'CI to think it was boring because she took me to some ~tu­pid little holes that didn't go anywhere."

Her impression changed when she atlcndL-d a conference and agreed to go caving with some of the p.lrticipants.

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"They took me to places with s treams lEnder· ground and waterfalls and I could play in the wa ter and get wei," I lea?lit s.lid. " I just thought it wa'> really neat and.l lot of fun . I could climb around and J could roll around in the mud and nobody cared.

"[t's kind of an excu<:.e to act like a kid." For Brad Stephen'>On, a graduate student from

Chalt.lnooga, Tenn., pursuing a master's d egree in geology with an emphaSiS on karst hydrology was a natural COU f!>e.

"[ was thrL'C wL'Ck~ old when Illy pa rents car­riL-d me into a cave," h ... said, "so I've lx'Cn cav­in14 since thell."

Studying the C.1Ves in the summer "sort of gave me an excu!)(' to get into cilving without fl'C[ing guilty about ii ," he Sil id . " I could c.ll1 it school work and go caving and not feel like [ was ne­glecting what I wa,> supposed to be doing."

Not all of the students were there for credit. Larry Clau-.er of Birdsboro, Penn., s.lid h(' took

the cour:;€' "more for personal enrichment and to understand thing'> bt>tter."

The course ,11<;() ga\"e him a chance to see some of the more significant caves.

"Pennsylvania has a lot of caves, but they art' mostly insignificmlt,'" Clauser said. ''\'11 do a lot of my caving in Virginia and WC!.t Virginia and occ,lsionally get down this way (to Mammoth

Cave). It's a good bit further to travel, but you've got to go where the stuff is."

The group gathers at the bunkhouses at Maple Springs after lunch, the morning spent in the classroom. They pile into three cars, loaded with helmets, lamps and the other gear that will be needed when they descend into the cave.

Along the way, the group stops at a small church cemetery to vi .. it the gra\'e of Aoyd Collins, the c,we explorer trapped and killed in Crystal Cave in 1925, his body recently moved from the Cilve to the cemetery.

"I think he was pretty ha ppy down there in the C,1\'C, actually:' Art Palmer, cour.;.e instructor, 50lid as thc students take p ictu rL'S of the grave and headstone.

Palmer, a professor of hydrology, geochemis­try and geophysics at Stale University of New York at Oneonta, l<lught the kilrst geology cou rse with his wife, Peg.

" [ was asked to teach this course by Nick Crawford at Western, so [ really didn" t have much choice," Palmer said. The P,llmeTS have bt.'Cn studying the Mammoth Cave system for about 30 yeilrs ""so it was possible to hav(' some­one teach a course in cave and karst geology who also knew the Cilve system intimately so we can take people undergrou nd and not get last and still have something to S<ly," he said.

"U's very difficult to get people (to teach) who know the cave who also know about other caves and geology in general," Palmer said. "Most of the people who go e:\oploTing here don' t know much about the geology and most gL'Ologists don't know anything about the caves."

The Pa lmers, who consider caving full-time work and almost a full-time hobby, have been teaching in the program almost since it bt.-g.-m in 1980.

Once undergrou nd, the students arc given the bound.uies for the exploration, along with a lis t of some of the more int('resting forma tions they will encounter. The students then bre.lk up into small groups to explore, map and read tht' cave.

The starting point is the place where Collins' had been until he was recently reburied on the surface .

Stephenson, the student from Chattanooga, works his way through one of the cave's branchl..'S, sketching in a notebook as he goes.

"We"ve'run through thrL-'C or four vertica l lev­ds of the cave and we're trying to put together the sequence of how the cave was formed­which came first and which way the wa ter was flowing," he 5olid. " In each case we're looking at the shapes of the pass.'lges themselves .1S well as features withi n the passages that will help us underst.lnd the sequence of e\'ents that he1]X>d formed the cave as we see it now."

The ultimate goo], according to P.llmer, is to tic the evolution of the cave and the surface to-­gether, how they interact. "You can see things in the cave that are totally missing at the sur­face, clues as to the his tory of the area." •

The real measu re of the success of the pro­g ram b the number of students returning to take other cour!>(.'S.

One of those students is Scott Melton, an as­sistan t cRodil inspection manager from Sydncy, Australia. This was his third summer trip to Mammoth Cave.

"I went along on olle of the geology trips two years ago and (the students) 50lid if I really liked the course, come back next year and do it," Melton s.lid. " I c.lme back last year and did the speleology and exploration courses."

Melton and three other students from those courses returned this summ('r to t.lke the karst geology course. In addition to the Mammoth Cave coun.es, Melton s.lid his plans included a bus tour to several other caves in the western U.S.

"P.uts of it havc been a bit beyond me be­cause I don' t have a geological background," he Silid. "I'm basically here for a bit of fun on a vilcation. N

Bob Skipper Assistaut Editor

"It's been worth-

while to liS espe­

cially becausc it

forces 115 to reth illk

OIlrideas alld illter-

act with people

who brillg fresll

eyeballs to tile

scelle al/d look at

thillgs through

their own eyes"" - Art Pil lmer

course in~tmctor,

karst geology

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bOs THE

bOs THE

'70s

THE

80s

Edna (Goff) Nunn (,29), Barren County Health Care Center, 300 Westwood St., Clilsgow, KY 42141, is a retired teacher.

Erlccn J. Rogers ('35), 207 Iknncttstown St., Ilcrndon, KY 42236, is retin.>d. She was secon­dary supervisor of in­struction at Christiilll County I hgh SchooL

PatridOl (Cobb) Strader ('60'66'77),1569\ E. Ca~pian Circle, #208, Aurora, CO s0013, is a substitute mC'dia s lX"­cialist with Cherry Creek Schools and Au­rora Public Schools. She retired from Muhlen­berg County Kentucky in June of 1989.

Stephen Crider ('62) 216 131uc I~id gc Ro..ld,

Mary Elizabeth Word OS), 2310 Faulkner Drive, I [opkinsvil1c, KY 42240, is a rclirC't.i county extension "gent. She worked in the Warren County nrca.

Adele (Elli s) Crilig (,40),412 W. Legion Bl vd ., Owensboro, KY 42301, is retired.

Louisville, KY 40223, has bLocll 1I(lllled direc­tor of commercial properties manage­ment for NTS Corp.

Robert Dunaway (,62'73'76),600 Spruce Llne, Elizabethtown, KY 42701, is assist(lnt principal (It Parkway Element(lry School in I [(lrdin County.

Studelll arriJ't'S /)II call1l',, ,;--Fail1 970

Michael Ray ('80) .m d Canaver.ll, FL 32920, is E. Lynne (Nave) Cosby a data analyst specialist ('76),7623S. E. with Grumman Techni-Woodwa rd, Portland, cal Services, Inc. OR 97206. I Ie is an asso-

Michael E. Murph y ciate professor in the d epartment of religion ('80),9900 Adleta

at Warner Pacific Col- #1811, Dallas, TX 75243,

lege. She is a self em- is territory manager for

ployed full time wife Lennox Industries, [nco

and mother. Maria Zaboron.lk ('80),

I{onal d David Farago 647 Westport Ro.ld,

('80), POB 143, Cape #105, Elizilbethtown,

24 I WFsrE ~ " K EN T UC K Y UN I VERSlry ALU .'I NI M "'(;ALII\[

OAR Fn1l1958, Vnll MeIer Arulilor illlli

Jo.mne (LOIwson) Sneed ('62'67),107 Ayr Parkway, Madisonvillc, KY 4243 [, is a first grade teacher with the Hopkins County Board of EdUCiltion.

Robert L. Baker (,63), 102 SI. Francis Court, #15, Louisville, KY 40205, is territory man· ager for Frick-Gal-1.1ehen Manufacturing Company.

N. Cl ifton ('70) and Joan Emily (Hi;.:son) Howard ('67'70), 147 Northwood Road, Frankfort, KY 40601. He is an administrator with the Kentucky Cabinet for H uman Re· sources. She is a Chap­ter I Program Coordi­nator for the Kentucky Dcp.1 rtment of Educil­tion.

KY 4270l, is an aCil-demic record s clerk with the U.s. Depart-ment of Army (civil ian).

Joy (Molden) Adams ('81),407 College St., Somerset, KY 42501, is a third grade teacher with the Pulaski County Board of Educa tion.

Pamela T. Amon ('81), 2815 Woodwilrd Drive,

Lurene GibSon ("63), 2725 Small housc Road, Bowling Gr(.ocn, KY 42104, is retired.

Ronald L. G lomski ('63),5654 Vicksburg Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70817, is a chemist wi th Dow Chemical Co.

Dailey Austin McPeak ('64),1507 Bravo Blvd., Glasgow, KY 42141, of the McPeak Center for

Hav.ud Jordan Jr. ('70), 2329 Pa rk Place Drive, Gulfport, MS 39507, is a chief administrative of­ficer for the ci ty of Gulfport.

Helen Powell Terry ('70),3219 Cilve Springs Ave., Bowling Green, KY 421 04, is il national nursing inscrvice man­ager with Wcyer­haeuser.

Louisville, KY 40220, is an accounting clerk with SunbcJt Marketing S.E. Inc.

Susan E. Buhay ('81'82), 6937-L Roswell Ro.ld, Atlanta, GA 30328, is employed as a dental hygienist. She recently traveled to the Soviet Union on.1 professional dental exchange where she made s lide present(l-

Willard E. Winkenhofer Sr. ('40), 2138 Cemetery Road, Bowling Green, KY 421 03, is an agent and district manager wi th Equitable Ufe As-sura nee Society of New York.

William H. Horre ll (,43), 3064 Domar, Memphis, TN 38118, is retired fro m the Hartford Insurance Group.

Eye Care in Glasgow has pesented a lecture on lasers to the Interna-tional Congress of Oph-thamology in Sin-gapore. The meeting was iltlended by 8,000 delegates representing 80 cou ntries.

Gayle Bowles ('65), 106 Liberty Ch urch Ro.ld, Madisonville, KY 42431, is a senior methods en-gincer at Madisonville's

Thomas G. Walsh ('71),159 Academy 51., South Orange, NJ 07079. Dr. Walsh is executive dir(.'Ctor of [nternation(ll Reli-gious Foundation.

David K. Ward (71), 4136 Stafford Court, Owensboro, KY 42301, is a firs t senior vice president-sccon-dary marketing divi-

tions of fX'diatric den-tist ry in America.

Orlando Denice (Gillum) Hennemanll ('8 1),5817 Robinwood [~o.ld , #4, Louisville, KY 40218, is an artis t with Baach Creative Services.

Debra L. Hinton ('81), 108 Lisa Ave., #1, Dan-ville, KY 40422, is il

Thurman Newe ll ('48) American Associat ion Monroe County i30.1rd Drive, Dallas, TX and Omegene (Powers) of Retired Persons. of Education. Her hus- 752.u, is il self em-Powell ('SO), Box 263,

Alice J. Harpring ('SO), band is Thomas Brat- ployed investor.

Dixon, KY 42409. [-Ie is ton Pinckley ('49). a retired soil conserva- 211 Fernwood, Daven- Els ie Pitcock ('58),

tionis!. She is a retired port, IA 52803, is il self Glen Ray ('55) and 707 N. Main St.,

elementary school li- employed medic.11 doc- Nel lesa Grhl estaff (56), Tompkinsville, KY

brarian. tor. 2148 Fountain Run 42167, is.1 retired ele-

Laverne (Craig) I'inck-ROild, Gamaliel, KY mentary school

Filith E. Rives ('49), 911 42140. lie is a self em- teacher. She tilught N. MainS\. , ley ("52'54'69), 1114 Co- ployed farmer. She is a wi th the Monroe Hopkinsville, KY 42240, lumbia Ave., Tomp- retired teacheT. County Board of is retired ilnd belongs kinsville, KY 42167, is Education for 31 1/2 to both the local and iln instructional super- Joseph W. Manley ye.1fS. national chapters of the visor K-12 with the ('55),9204 LocilTtlo

GE Plant. Figgie Properties. Fig-

Suzann Rae Ca lhoun gie Properties is the

('68),105 Logsdon real estate development

Court, Louisville, KY subSidiary of Figgie

40243, is assistant di- Intern(ltional.

rector of s tudent serv- Barbara (Watson) ices with the Jefferson Touby ("68), Box 804, County Board of Edu- SJ rilnac L,l ke, NY cation. t2983, is a part time Charles S. Mitchell nurse a t Uihlein Mercy ('68),4420 Sherwin Center ilnd a part time Ro.ld, Willoughby, 01-1 actress with 44094, has bccn ap- Pendragon. pointed president of cOlllirmed 011 pas" 28 Oommlory sc" Ilt",, 1962

s ion for Lincoln Serv- Larry D. Miller ('72), Pat Withrow ('72), nomics Control to cre-ice Corporation in 205-4 Honeysuckle 2260 Rock Cr(.'Ck ate a heart surgery Owensboro. He has Lane, Bardstown, KY Circle, Paducah, KY unit on wheels. The been designa ted as.1 40004, is a senior as- 42001, is a cardiolo- unit is the first of its Certified Mortgage sistant with Roses gis t <It Paducah's kind in Kentucky (lnd Ba nker (CMB) by the Department Siore. Western Baptist Hos- will, on a regular b(l-Mortgage Bankers

Thomas S. Potter pita!. Dr. Withrow is s is, travel to nine hos·

Association of Amer-(72),315 l'.lTk View

one of five Western pHals in the Pennyrile ica. He is one of 370 Kentucky doctors and Purchase areilS mortgage b(lnking Drive, Louisville, KY who r('Commended that do not have ca r-professionals in the 40245, is a sak-s rep- and receiv(.-d initial diac catheterization Un ited States to hold resentative with Ken- approval from the labs. the CM B designation. tucky Stone Com- Kentucky Com mis-

p.1ny. s ion on Health Eco-COII/lllllt'if 011 /'lISt" 28

field representative, Di- Thomas L. Jr. ('81) and Lane, Spri ng, TX 77373, officer. He is active 10-vision of Conservation, Patricia (Coatney) is the senior account cally in the Emmaus for the Commonwealth Montgomery ('79), 831 representa ti ve in the Community. of Kentucky Cabinet of Covington Ave., Bowl- Houston District Office

Susan (West ray) Bra-Natural Resources. ing Green, KY 4210 I. for The David J. Joseph He is manager of Co. mer ('82), 8500 Hous-

Jeff T. Jackson ('81), Gold en Farley. She is ton Lane, Pewee Val-1'.0. Box 8431, Atlanta, manager and interior Rufus Kimbell Baker ley, KY 40056, is a reg-GA 30306, is (l corporate designer for B..lrbara Jr. ('82'84), 31 1 Alvey isten.-d nurse with health s.l les represcnta- Stew(lrt Interiors. Drive, Madisonville, Humana I-Iospitill ti ve with Tanner Medi- KY 42431, has joined Audubon and private cal Center in Carrollton, Michael Ned videk thc staff of Farmers physician's office. Georgia. ('St), 25523 Milll~ond B(lnk and Trust Co. in

Mildisonville as (l loan ClmlilllU'l/ QII /!(Ig,· 28

FAl.l. 1 990 I 25

A cross Ihl' Umll'd SIMes, AI.:abanu. K.lnS<ls 'l'8ioua/ chapl", of lilt C .... I ... IAI .. b .. m .. KA"S'U City Wt'SIl'T1I ~utucky Ullil'fl"- Tom (,SO) and \liry Ilcss M'le ~nd L,ndd Abell ('631 sr ty Alum", A5SOCUltrOllAn' INul ... ('SO) 5201 W.98thTerT~ ht'lpmK Kmdmrtes L>tp in 2206 Lynng..te Dri"e o\·~.,-I"nd r.rk, Kdn..a5

touch u'ith tach othtr /Iud O,rmmSMm, AL1rorna 66211

Ihe Utrh'l.'rsily. Tire {oIICt«'- 35216 Kentucky IIIK rs II liM of cool,tl" p,esi- .v.,rtlt AI .. b .. ", .. H ........ "Cmmty diuts IlIrd rufdresses. F«I Joe ('61) and Kathy ('60) Bob Baysinger {'72) fret 10 colltact you, arM Thom.>. 114 \tagnoloa Cool'le' l"esiJl'IIt if JIlIU 'II 916 Chattel'SOn Rood. S.E. C]asgow, Kentocly 42141

like /0 get lIIl'Vlwd 0' rf JIlIu Huntsv ,IIe, ALlroma 35602 Hr~cbHridsdCraysoH

oow allY quesllOns abotlt Dis l ricl of C olumbiol Cmlllti~s

WesteTII. Charlie Blancett (73) I\'~s',i"sto". D.C. P.O. Om 4()9 Betty J:lrock ('59) Hardinsburg. K .. nlucky 15424 I>lJ"OT 110U5C TraC<' 40143 Rockville, M,'ryl~nd

IIr£ckrnrisis,ICr.'ysoll

""" Counties

Floridol Darrelillarrdl ('72)

Ct'IItr~1 norida P.o.. \lox 245

\\'''Y'''' PL'<!' SO ('57) Leitchfield, Kenh'c~y 40143

5911~rnhil1 Dri"e Orlando, ~lorida 31808 Cr"lr,,1 Kr "lu( iy

Don McCoire ('Sol) /a(1so ltvillr 1911 I'dTkcr's Mill Ro.ld Bcn ... ly Sells ('66) Le~mgton. Kentucky l305 Via De Ur Reina """ J.-c:ksonv,n,>, FIonda 12217 Cloristi .... CO'lIIty

s.,wlh~Ast floridA Chip M iles (70)

Slwwn Kenoey 107 Jam .. '", On .... ,

16325 SWim Court Hopldnsvillt., Kentocly

~l iami, Florida DI57 .,,,,, C"mWrla"d Cpuly

s.,,,lhrut florid" joeSk'pworth (FR) joe Sydroor (73) ]'.0. \lo~ 220 15081 I'eat .... !'lito .... Way Burkesvillt., Kentuc:ky D.wie, ~lorida 3ml 42171

South",ut f/<lrid" D"l'itu, Mel.,,,,,, Eh1 ... bl'1h Evans (OU) H""c(I(k

Da"e (79) and C"'i~ (78) 37 D~wn 110 .... e r Circle L.ehigh. ~lorida 33936 Roo.·r1 s

816 COItaf:e I)ri"e

l'''''11a /lily O .... en,boro, Kentucly Jeff Ralph (76) 42301 136131.ytloll Way Gr~lIt~r Loui'l'm. Tamp;!. Horid" 336H )Jy 1.0"''' ('70)

Georgia 3-'24 Ilyd'ffe Avenue 1.ouisville. K .. ntucky 40207

,11"",/ .. "~,,,tl~nd (II"nlin'M~a,'~1

Q,rald Fudge ('63) LII .,,, Co""ti,.) 510 O,ll1ey Lar>e JoyC<' Twyman ('62) Atlanta, Cc<!rg',l 30328 6018 Foxfi ... Dri"e

Ind i,lIIol Eh~ ... bcthtow", Kl~"l.I('ly

42701 C"Ht,,,/ huli"",,

Hop~i"sCow"ty AI Still." ('67) 4'iS Howard Rood W~Y"" L .. k'M (73)

Greenwood, Indi.na "6142 Route 1, \lox 149 Wh,te ]'1diM, Kent ucky

So,,11I Cr"'",I I"di""" 42646 u" \hlk·. ('65, '66) /.sIk" C"m/H<rl" .. d Roule2 Glenn Blackburn 1'65) New "Irony, lud",na 114INshAwnue 47150 Somenet, Kentocky 42..'iO]

So"tllrm 'Hdi."," LoS"" CO"Hty Chris Zerl...'lroch ('82) M~rl Reyrookh (77)

834 Royal A, .. nue 123 o..ll"I~~",' Circle Russellv ,l le, KcntlO('ky Ev~nsville, Indiana 47715 42276

26 I WES1HIIN KENTUCI;Y LNtVEM51TY ALUMNt MA<.;AZt:>a

M"ri.,,, C""" 'y JOS<-1'h.OO \hc"",,, C,u rico ('51) ROIl t ... 4, Bo. 374 Lebanon, Kentocly 4OO.l3

MOHrot COUHty Sam Clark ('65, '67) 110 C ......... n Acres Tompl inwiUe, Kentucky 42167

Muhl~"/H<"8 Co~"/y Patrkid Bryant ('83)

Highway 70 n.. .... "hmolll, Kentllcky 4Z323

NI"O'f'~ Kr~t"r"y Bill Lamb ('72) \lox ~765 Ale\andria, Kentucky 41 001

01110 COllnty Rita Schrood .. r (76, '85) 123 N. L.>f,'yl'lle St., U !K· ..... r Dam, Kentucky 42320

Oldha,,, Cou"ly Blake 11~.,.,1ton ('70, 78) ]06Suru.el Dri,'" Lo(;rang", K""tucky 40001

Slmp_ Cp.mty leon ]'age (BU '43) 505 Souttl College Strrec F.ankhn, Kentucky 42134

S,tnlur C"'~H/y I.m Huggtnll ('64 ) 1'0.. Bo~637 Taylorsvtlle, Kentucky 40071

Tri Co~"ty (H .. ndcnoon) Gene Melton ('67 7 4) 755 Mornlngsid., Orh'e Morganfi .. ld, Kentucky 012437

(Un ion) Eddie ('OJ), and Jane ('58)

PlinS· ton Route 2, Julie', Woods St"rgi~, Kentucky 4245'1

(Webster) It R. MM15 ('5 1) 201 Cedar Stn.oct I'rov,d .. nce. Kl·ntucky 42450

TriK.'; COU"/y LindS<!)'Champkm ('U ) Roul~ 3, Bo~ 6 Cod,:;e, K('ntucl y 42211

1\'" ...... " Co""ty K",d n Broo ('74) 633 RKigKn. ... t Bowling Crem, Kentucky 42101

I\'r5' KtHII.cky /l'lld"cllhj B,lI Jones (77) 1175 Robm",ood Drive P,lducah, Kentucky 42001

Mississi ppi

C'''/'AI MississiPlti Cliff Rhodes ('51) 7\}.\ Country I"LKe Orl\'e lackson, ~lississippi 39206

Missouri

Edr..,,,,,Iey{'69) 405 Morutor Way St. Charles, Mi550tlri 63303

New J ersey

Pdt Owen ('67, 73) 85 Wooten Court Ea.t Onrns"'id, \i .. w Jersey

""" New York

Thorn"s McCormick ('61) She,lI'wn Lehman Ilutlon New Yor K, New Yorl10119

North Carol in a

600(70) and janl'Y (70) Outtermore 2100 Be,wly Dri .... Ch;rriotte, North Cuolin. -I'en nsy lv .:ania

Chris ... {~''''' (70) 300 B. Timbcrgk'n Dri,.., Impcna l, Penos)·lvani.l 15126

South Carol ina

St~"I'e Carrico (77) 139 RIpley Station Rood Colum"'~, South Carolina 29210

Tennessee

Ch"It~"ooS" Mike Jenkins (73) 283 Harbin La".. ChatlaTJOoga. Ten"""""" 37415

£ast T~",,~ssU Sally S"nd .. rs ('52) Rout .. 2, Box 722 jef/CI'WnCity, Tennl-ss.:. ... mw Memphi5, T~"'ltssU i{ich,lrd GI'\.'en ('64) 4289 o.ld Forest Rood Memphis. Ten~'<' 36t36

M;,ldlt Trn"ttlSN o..n AndCrNm ('52) 148 Ray Drive Hender~or\\'i1Ie, Ten~ ',.,5 Tt'xas

0 .. 11,,5 Dan Brooks ('70) 3633 MdUcrhom Plano, T"",. i5075

/lo"sto" i",,), Smith ('65) 51 4 Oriar Knoll Houston. TexM 17m

ALUMNI CLUB MEETINGS

January - The Orlando, Florida Alumni Club met at the Rosemont Golf and Country Club for dinner on January 5. Special WKU guests in­cluded Lee Robertson, former Director of Alumni Affairs; Eddie Diddle, JT. and Alumni Director, Jim Richards. Special thanks to Wayne Pedigo for org.lnizing the e\'ent.

Alumni in the North Florida-South G(.'orgia area gathered for a p re-game (WKU \'s. Jackson­ville) "A lumni Bash" at the home of Beverly Sells on January 6. TIlallks Beverly for rolling out the "Big Red" carpet to everyone!

The Southwest Florida are.l held their "First­Evcr" Alumni meeting at the Sheralon Harbor Place in Fl. Myers, Florida on January 7. WKU Alumni hCilrd news ilbout their alma mater from Eddie Didd lc, Jr. , Lee Robertson, fonner Director, Alumni Affairs, and Alumni Director, Jim Richards. llats off to Elizabeth EVilns for il job well done!

The "Big Red Express" went to the SoulhwL'St Florida WKU Alumni Club meeting at the Sea­food Gardens Reslilurilnl in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida on January 8. Special thanks to Joseph D. Sydnor for organizing the e\'enl!

February - J. c. and Ellen Lyons rolled out the "Big Red " carpet al their home for the Charlolle area alumni meeting prior 10 the WKU 'IS UNCC b.lsketb.ll1 ga me on February 17. TIlere was also a post-game reception at the Carowinds Iioliday Inn hosted by Gerald and Trena Beckham and Stc\'e ilnd Judy Carrico. Thanks to the Lyons, the Beckh<trns <tnd the C1Tricos -loyal WKU support­ers!

The T<tmpa B.ly Alumni Association Club hosted a pre-game (W KU 'IS USF) reception at the usr Su n Dome on February 19. Spo..'Cial thanks to Karen Malchus - gre.l! job of org,lnizing Ihis evenl!

April, The Central KentllCky Alumni Club held their annual spring gathering ill Keenland on April 26. Loyal WKU supporters Jim BilL'S and Don McGuire deserve a "Big Red" thanks for or­ga nizi ng such a fanlas tic day!

THE ALUMNI GRANT 'e The Alumni Grant a ll owsany quali­

fied out-of-state student who is a child

or a grandchild of a WKU graduate to

receive .1 grant equal to the non-resi­

dent portion of the registration fcc,

Contact the Office of Admissions (502)

745-2551 for additional informa tion.

A /l1II-filled tmlt' IlViS hnd by all III tlrl' 4t1r Armrllll Day III till' Races at EII'5 1'1Ir~ m I "'"ill'~tr, K"lItr,ciy, Oil July 28. WKli Altm",; from [mIlSl'rli<', OiI'l:II~I)()/'Q /ll/d Ilell­II''TWII alti'lIlkilt/IIS 11(11'"111' t'l'f'ut.

May - "Oh, the sun shines bright .. , ". Wher­ever WKU Alumni Clubs hold Derby parties! The following alumni d ubs spent the first Saturday in May sipping mint juleps and picking a winncr.

Middle Tenncsscc - Dan Anderson Texas - D,ln and Beverly Brooks Georgia - Dan and Jean (Clark) Houghton The Warren County Alumni Club held Iheir

annllal dinner meeting on Western's ca mpus on May 8. WKU Tom Mered ith spoke to the group about the future of Western - ever-changing and exciting!

The I luntsville, Alilbama Alumni Club held their spring meeting al the Boots Restaurant on May II. WKU gu(.'Sts included Bill Jonl'S, Presi­dent Nalional Alumni Association; Lee Murray, fo rmer WKU footbilll coach and Alabamian; ilnd Jim Richards, Alumni Director. Special thanks to Dwight Maxwell for orga nizing this cvent!

The Greater Louisville Alumni Association held its annual "Day at the Races" at Churchill Downs on May 26. A "Big Red" thanks to Linda Schult,!; and Dian Graham - a fant astic day to share with fellow WKU alumni!

July - WKU Alumni in the Washington, D. C. area mel at the L.lurel Race Course in Laurel, Maryland for their ilnnual gathering on July 21 . Thanks to Betty IJrock and Don Eck.ut - super or­g.lni7..ation for a greal d.1Y 10 be with fellow WKU alumni!

The 41h Annual Day at the Races was held at El­lis Park in Henderson, Ky. on July 28. WKU Alumni from Evansville, Owensboro and 1 len­derson attended this popular event. WKU guesls included President Tom MNcdith and his wife Susan; Alumni Director Jim Richards; Associate Alumni DirL'Ctor Ron &.'Ck and the Alumni Asso­ciat ion Bo.lrd of Directors.

Hilltopper Huddles '90

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I'atricia A. (Crowley) Donahoo ('69), Route 2, Box 29, 216 E. Main St., Scbrt.'e, KY 42455, is a home L'Conomics teacher for the Webster County 130md of Edu­cation.

J. Thomas Mandrell ('69), 139 S. Hall Road, Alco.l, TN 3nOl, is a self employed physi­cian.

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Karen Lynn Hudson ('73),9200 Ash lee Llne #4, Tampa, FL 33617, was recently promoted to English Department Ileild at Tomlin Junior High School where she teaches eighth and ninth grade honors English. She is also the gi rls' assistant b.lsketb.ll1 co.1Ch at Tomlin. She received a masters degree in guidance and coun­seling from the Uni­versi ty of South Flor­ida in May of 1989.

Ernest Dale ('73) and Rebecca (Meadows) Melloan (74), 263 Whitmiln Ro.l d, Munfordville, KY 42765. lie is a firs t

grade teacher with the Metcalfe County 13o..1rd of Education. She is.l speci.l1 ed uca­tion te.lcher with the . Hart County I3o..lrd of Education.

Richard Murrey (73), 5111 Westwind Drive, Orlimdo, FL 32804, is crea tive director of Richard Sibley Associ­il les, Inc. in Orlando. His res ponsibil it ies in­clude ad vertisi ng con­cept, I"yout, design and illustrat ion. '-Ie as won several "dvcrtis­ing ilwilrd s, including Addys. He is an expe­rienced desk-top com­puter designer,,, crea­tive copywriter, and ji ngle writer with stu­dio experience.

Bobby B. ('73) and Bonnie (Kanler) Nance ('84), 8744 Ilill­side Drive, Newburgh, IN 47630. He is an engineer with Peill:xxly Co--ll Co. She is il teilcher at SI. John Ciltholic School.

C.W. "Winkie" Guess (74),2112 Blair Blvd., H8, Nashville, TN 372 12, has openL'{1 a medical office in Nashville specializing in cardiothorilcic sur­gery. Dr. Gut.'Ss is oo.lrd certified in gen­eral surgery and oo.1Td eligible in ca rdiothora­dc surgery.

Annette Rader (74), 4898 Je.lnnelle Road, Hilliard, 0 11 43026, is manilger for NA PA Distribution Center (Genuine Parts Com­pany).

Elaine Whillips) Bryan ('76), n04 Ash­ley W<XXIs Drive, Lou­isville, KY 40241, is an account reprt.'senta­tive/ business Stlit.'S

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with Liberty Mutuill Insurance.

J- Alvin Hardy ('76), 608 N. Central, Campbellsville, KY 42718, is vice president for development at Ca mpbellsville Col­lege. lie will supervise alumni ilffil irs ilnd fi­nancial development .

John I{ . Oldham ('76), P.O. EklX 1312, Bowling Gf('('n, KY 42102, is di­rector of ildvt!rtising and marketing with Midsouth Manage­ment Group, Inc.

Itoxan" Correll (,n), 120 Piccadilly Square HF, Ci nci nnati, O t-! 45255, is manager of FORMU-3 In terna­tional.

Brenda (Muller) Leftwich (,77), 126 Gi­bson Drive, Mayfidd , KY 42066, is a home­maker.

Rev. Craig T_ Combs ('78), Route 3, Gillett, KY 46295, is senior pastor il t First Il.lptist Chu rch of Bentley Creek.

William S. Davis (78), %2 Tulip Drive, Peru, IN 46970, is an aircraft commander with the Uni h,od Stiltes Air Force.

Jan M. Mue ller ('78), 3707 Plymouth Ro.ld, Louisville, KY 40207, is office manilger for Cardnallndustrialln­sulation.

Zoe Ellen Stanl ey ('78), Route 1, Box 97, St.>brec, KY 42455, is a teacher wi th the Web­ster Cou nty Boo rd of Educ.ltion.

John C. Payne ('79'82), 101 Oa k Lea f Court, Hendersonville, TN 37075, is co-owner of

ScChaz Sportswear and Promotions, Inc.

Judy (Watson) Tracy (,79), The Orlando 5t.'n­tinel, P. 0. Box 2833, Orlando, FL 32802, has been employed with The Ori(lIldo Se"U"e/ for ten years. She was a photogrilpher fo r The "era'd while .1t WKU.

Stephen J. ('79) and Diana G. Wall (,80), 1720 Sioux Plilce, Owensboro, KY 42301. He is a design engin(.'('r with Hendrick Screen Compilny. She is a sub­stitute teacher al Weslyan College in Owensboro.

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Debra Hawes ('82), 1490Sul\ivan Loop, Owensboro, KY 42303, is community relillions coord inator for the Green River Regional Mentill Health / Mentill Retilrdation Bo.lrd, Inc. She is also a member of the Owensboro Ch" mbcr of Com­merce Young Profes­sionals and the Ohio Valley Man.lgement Club.

Martha K. Magers ('82), Route 2, Norris City, IL 62869, is county su pervisor for U.5.DA Filrmers Home Administration.

Mark Stuart and Phylis (Harrell) Newsom ('82), 220 West Chase, Nashville, TN 37205. He is direc-

tor of marketing for Comd il ta . She is il n in­terior designer with Tarkington.

D.wid r. Orne ('82), 1234 Reynolds Ro.ld, 1t242, l..l kelilnd, FL 33801, is a regional planner for Centrill Florid il Regional Plan­ning Counci l.

Susan Kay Bradley ('83), 1402 Hig hland Ave. #7, Knoxville, TN 37916, gr.lduated from the Universi ty o f Ten­nessee Knoxvi lle Col­lege of L1W in May, 1990. She will take her bil r eXil m in July of 1990. Her fu tu re plans include going into em­ployment law.

Jeffrey R. Heile ('83), 621 Mehring Way #2402, Cincinnilti, OH 45202, is area manager for Nashua Corp.

Patricia (Brewer) Hel­ton ('83), 318 Wa lker St., Prattville, AL 36067, is office man­ager fo r Hilrris ilnd Harris, P.e.

Richard L. Murphy Jr. ('83), 1120 Wildflower, S!. Charles, MO 63303, is a process engineer / fu ture planning coor­diniltor with General Motors Buick Oldsmo­bile Cildi llac Group Wentzville Facility.

Ruby A. Kuykendall ('83), Route 3, Box

Don' t be afraid to TOOT YOUR HORN! It's the only way to let you r classmiltes

and friends know whilt you' re up to. Whether you've made an addition to your filmil y, gotten a promotion, chilnged occu pations, s tartL'<I a business, written a book, or won an award, leI us know.

Include your class ye.1T, where you live and you r phone number.

Ma il to: Office of Alumni Affilirs Western Kentucky University Bowli ng Green, KY 42101

2858, Beaver Dilm, KY 42320, is a staff registered nurse with the Ohio County Ilospit.l l.

Betty Y. Moore ('83), 451 1 MilTSe Plilce, Lou isville, KY 40299, is iln executive secre­tary to CEO at Main St reet Reillty.

George Nichols ('83), 115 Beechwood Ave., Shelbyville, KY 40065, is director of Central State Hospi­tal. He is also vice cllilir of his church's trustee boilTd, and is ilctive in vilriolis community activities related to youths.

Jay C. Scott ('83), 8003 Lincoln A "c., Evansville, IN 4n 15, is a landscape de­signer/ sales repre­!>Cntative with Colo­nial Garden Centers, Inc.

Phy[lis Washington ('83'87),570 Rolling Acres, Madisonville, KY 4243 1, is iln assis­tililt controller with the Kentucky Ililnk ,1Ild Trust Company.

Brent ('84) ilild Jean­ette (Craw ford) Askins ('83), 1000 North Court, Quitman, GA 31643, were married August 5, 1989. He is in the finill s tagt.'S of his d octorill dissertation at the Universi ty of Kentucky. lie is on the facu lty of the Business and Voca­tionill Education Dc­p.lrtment at Valdosta State College. She is completing her d oc­toral work in physi­cal ed uca tion at Flor­ida Stil te Universi ty in Tilllilhassee, Flor­id il.

Mark C. ('84) and Laura- Lynn (Moss) Malh is ('85), 1316 B Clilra nette Court, Owensboro, KY 42.301. He is a sports colum­nist with the Messt'll­ger-il/qllirer. She is ilrt di rector for Phoenix, Inc.

lee Angela Philup ('84),244 Reed Ave., Mildisonville, KY 42431 , is il plant ac­countilnt ill Speed Queen in Madison­ville. She is illso il member of Leadership Greater Mildisonville, il SundilY School teacher at the First Church of Naz.1Tel1c, a board member of the church, a member of NIKE Business and Professional Women's organization, and she teaches a class in su­pervisory manage­ment for Madison"i\Ie Community College.

Andy ('84) and Marsha (logsdon) Wagoner ('89), 890 F.li rview Ave., A-207, Bowling Grccn, KY 4210 1. /-Ie is an ildmis­sions counselor at WKU. She is a sa les reprcscntiltive with Tra vel Professionil ls International, Inc.

Donnil (lindsey) Woods ('84), 8206 Ver­dura St., Navarre, FL 32566, is a second grade teilcher ill 5.1nta Ros.l County l3o..1Td of Education.

John Michael ('85) and Jill (ShOlw) Brown ('87), 37 t95 Cn.'('kside Terrace, Fremont, CA 9-1536. He is a system analyst for Import Pilrts America. She is il showroom manilger for Evans Rents Furn i­ture.

Brenda Ca lvert ('85), Route 4, Box 258A, Falmouth, KY 41Q.10, is a chapter I reading teacher with Pendle­ton County Schools.

Karen Sue (Himes) Christensen ('85), 9216 Lansburgh Circle, lnd iil napolis, IN 46234, is art di rec­tor for the National Printing Plilte, Inc.

LauraJ . Frank lin ('85), 547 Brooksboro Ter­rilce, Nashville, TN 37217, is il senior cus­tomer service repre­sent.lti"e with Milrt llil While F<XXIs.

Linda Kaye Hargett ('85), 106 Pleas-,nt Hill Drive, Springfield, TN 37 I 72, is a \'eterinary technician with tht.' Volunteer Veterinary Clinic.

Army 1st U . John T. Shipp ('85), P.O. Box 22, Ilodgenville, KY 42748, received his air­borne wings in Sep­tember 1989 at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Ga.

La Cinda Ann (S iddens) Bush ('86), 1588 Memphis Junc­tion Road, H-I3, Bowl­ingGrt.'('n, KY 42JOI, i~ il tax ilccoun tant with Fruit of the Loom, Inc. - Corporate Office.

Dennis W. Cecil ('86), 358 Rosenberger, Apt. E, Ev.lnsville, IN 4n12, is il [o.ln o fficer with Farmers B.lnk ilnd Trust Comp.lny.

Justin Lee Did (,86), 162 Edgew<XXI Drive, Ilendersonville, TN 37075, is il production specialist with 1l.1ptist TC'lccommu nicatiollS Network.

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L. Jane Huebschman len SL, Owensboro, KY agent in Campbell ('86),979 B Paradrome 42301, is a medical County. She will serve 51., Ci ncinnati, 0 1-1 technologist with the 4-H d ubs in FI. Tho-45202, is a graduate as- Owensboro-Daviess m.1S, Bellevue and sistant in the spt:."'eCh County Hospital. Dayton. communication de-

Timmy Lee and Belinda (Eaton) G lass partment at Miami University. She will Wanda Sue (Gam- ('88),118 Groce St.,

gr.lduate in August of mOils) Qu iggin s ('87), Glasgow, KY 42141, is

1990. 7190il Field l~oad, employed by Taylor, Horse Cave, KY 42749. Polson & Company,

Jane T. Massey ('86), He is a high school ag- CPA's in Glasgow. She 2905 Burch Ave., #5, riculture teacher with was one of over SO Nashville, TN 37203, is the Larue County candidates to complete projects coordina tor Bo.lrd of Ed uca tion. the 1989 CPA Exami-fo r General Board of She is a housewife. nation sponson.'<I by Discipleship.

Sheryl A. Overton the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Ac-

Jane McDonald ('86), ('87),1122 Stockell 5t., countants. 4508 Blue Level Ro..ld, Nashvi1!e, TN 37207, is Rockfield, KY 42274, is an administr"tive "s- Sue R. Matt ingly ('88), " scnior programmer sistant with the 5t"te Rou te 3, I3 reckinrid ge analyst with Fruit of of Tennessee, Dep"rt- Apts., #9, I ["r-the Loom/ Corporate. ment of He"ith and dinsburg, KY 40143, is

Environment. a cou nty extension Jody Secondino-Cra n-

Catherine E. Wat hen agen.t for home eco-

dell ('86), Route 12, ('87),6700 Sycamore

nomlCS. Box 173, W. Terre Hau te, IN 47885, is a Woods Drive, Louis- Beverly (Curtsinger)

self employed land, vil le, KY 40241 , is an Payne ('88), 3528

grain and callIe administrative assis- Roundtable Loop,

rancher. tant with Caufield, O wensboro, KY 42303, Thompson and Associ- is a spt.'"Cial vOGl tional

M ichelle (Webb) Go ff att.'S. liaison / teacher with ('87), P.O . Box 609,

Den ise "Michelle" the Daviess Coun ty

Carroll ton, KY 41008, Board of Education. is a sales person with Webb ('87), P.O. Box

Atcher-Goff Rea l Es- 609, Ca rrollton, KY Juergen W. Pfe iffe r

tate, Inc. 41 008, is currently ('88),1704 B Brooks St., working as a real ('5- Presidio of S. F., CA

Richard and Leslie tate agent in Carroll- 94129, is a research as-(Tate) Hill ('87), 502 ton. She and her hus- sistant with the U.s. Jeffrey Road, Mill- band bought a H & R Army. He is ma rried ersvi lle, MD 21108. He mock Income Tax to the former Paula is an engineer with the Service satellite office Drake who is a s tu-Depa rtment o f De- in C.1Trollton where dent. fense. She is a student. she .11so prepares in-

Bett in a Po land ('88), Cheryl (Nelson) Jenks

come taxes during tax 205 S. Main 5t., Tomp-season.

('87),9401 Doral ki nsville, KY 42167, is Court, #12, Louisville, Cla y (,88) and Anita assistant editor of The KY 40220, is a systems (Norman) Broaddus Tompkin sville News. engineer with Hu- ('87),1768 Patrick

James Al len Jr. ('88) m.lna, Inc. Way, Apt. A, Bowling

and Llura Lynn Green, KY 42104. I-Ie is Richard D. Keith ('87), a sales reprcscntat ive (Thomas) Polk ('86),

1415 Smallhouse Road, with Kellogg'S. She is a 1775 B Kenton, Bowl-

Bowling Green, KY marketi ng manager ing Green, KY 42101. 42104, is a biomedical with Johnson and Rud- He is a counselor at

techn ician with the loph. Rivendell of Kentucky. Medical Cen ter at She is advertiSing Bowling Green. Lourrae Ewba n k ('88), l11il nager for Dollar

33-B Highland Ave., General Corp. Andrew E. Mout rar- Ft. Thomas, KY 4 \075, d ier ('87'88), 3033 Al- is a 4-1-1 Extension cOllli,med mlllcx/I'ase

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WESTERN KENTUC KY UNIVERSITY by Lowell H . Harrison

A ll you Western alums will W,ll1! cop­ies of this history of your alma mater! The illustrations will bring back memories of your days on The Hi ll!

Read about Western 's many fasc inat­ing personalities, its awesome basket­ball teams, its proud tradi tions!

This is a book every Hilltopper wi ll wanl to own! It is a part of your life history- and at a fantas tic Alumni As­sociation Book C lub discount!

350 pages! $16.50! The Perfect Gift fo r any Western G ra d !

ORDER FORM Please send me ___ copies of West-ern Kentucky University at $16.50 (a 50% discount) plus shipping. Make chL'Cks and mon .. y orders payabl .. to: THE UNIVERSITY I'RESS OF KENTUCKY

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IN MEMORIAM

Andrews, Betty)o ('51) Baker, Clarence "Stumpy" ('60) Bolton, Joseph Edward ('85) Bradshaw, Delzy Drymon ('39) Broderick, Carroll ('33) Brown, Eunice Offlill ('37) Bryant, Charles H. ('39'49) Carpenter, M" rgaret Richardson ('39) Carroll, Clarence ('60) Chisholm, Mary (FF) ClllTk, Carl M. ('51) Cole, Dr. Ju lian U. ('39) Cole, Lois ('31) Collins, E. Russell ('58)

Cooper, H. T. ('38) Davenport, Joe ('26) Davis, Herbert Lee, Jr. ('33) D"vis, Virginia Wood ('43) FaTllung, Glenn Alan (72) Fuson, Philip Lee ('SO'54)

Hannah, Barbara M. ('69) Ha tcher, Anna LOll (,58) Hoback, J. Frank ('38)

Johnson, Lewis G., Jr. (BU) Jones, Dr. J. E. (FF'59) Likens, Howa rd E. (BU'37) Lucas, Henry Brecke11Tidge McGown, John Stanley ('34)

McNeely, Lucille ('35) Mahurin, Brenda ('80'86) Mason, Fannie Blanche (BU) Morningstar, Jane (BU'23) Mouser, Lyman L., Jr. ('SO)

Newman, Mrs. G. E. ('33) Nicholson, George \,\'illiam (BU'49) Oliver, Lettie V. ('31) Parker, Blanche (Morg.ln) ('26) Peake, Ga ry Eugene ('74) Poindexter, Rev. Earl C. ('76) Purvis, LTC Edwin (BU'49) Shelburne, Virginia ('30) Simmons, Stanford {'50 Sisk, Elizabeth N. ('39) Slack, Zelma B. ('62) Stansbury, Robert ('68) Trimble, Ben ('31) Trimble, Vensil Alvin ('39) Upton, Arvin E. ('33) Vannada, Anna R. ('37) Watts, Dr. David (FF)

Webb, Mary Belle (Hardin) ('39) Westerfield, Clifford ('30) White, William Clifford, Jr. ('36) Wi nkenhofer, Arnold ('28) Wiseman, Lota (Kelley) ('29)

MRS. BElTY STEEN, 60, o f 1300nevi11e, Miss., died Aug. 2 after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Steen, wife of Charles Steen, is the mother of Western Kentucky University's Fi rs t Lldy, SlIS<ln Meredi th.

The family has requested in lieu of fl owers, memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society.

Clarence "Stumpy" Baker Scholarship Fund

In memory of former WKU Football Coach "Stumpy" Baker, a scholarship fund has been established at the South­ern Depos it Bank in Russellville, Kentucky. This scholarship will be awarded to a Logan County football player, attending the college or his choice. Contact John Sheffield, South­ern Deposit Bank, Box 130, l~ussellville, Kentucky 42276, for information.

Past Yearbooks for Sale The Alumni Associiltion has accumulated extra Tlllis,lIalls, which arc being made avail­able to alumni on a first-come basis:

1976 1979 1977 1980 1978 1981

The cost is $5.00 and will cover shipment to any location in the United States. Please ma ke check payable to WKU Alumni Association, Craig Alumni Center, Bowling Grccn, Ky 42101. Deadline - October 1, 1990

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Clark D. Rushing ('88), 405 Gregg Court, Nashville, TN 37217, is a research assistant/ graduate student at Vanderbilt Univer­sity/NASA Space Processes Center.

James Antho ny "Tony" Dwayne Whalen ('88), 4102 ]-Iuntcliff Drive, Woodstock, CA 30188, is territory manager fo r Schlage Lock Co. in Atlanta. He tra vels the state of Georgia selling architectural hardware and S<.'Curity systems. He has lx~n with the comp<1lly since July, 1988.

Vick ie L. Branham ('89),4 18 Wood land St., Burkesville, KY 42717, is a second grade teacher with the Cumberland County Board of Educa tion.

Jerry B. ('89) and Patricia Anne (Cha ppell) Hancock ('84'89), Route I, Box 305, Crccllvillc, KY 42345. He is a teacher / coach wit h the Muhlenberg County Boa rd of Education. She is a G ED instmctor with Career Systems Development.

Linda Michelle McFall ('89), 2001 Rockcreek Drive, Apt. II·G, Bowling Green, KY 42\01, is a case manager with the Bar­ren River Aging Serv­ice.

FALL 1 990 / 3 1

From a Friday cvcning picnic to a 5.1turday cvcning dinncr-dancc, alurruu and friends of thc Bowling Cl't.~n Business University reminisced and got re.lcquainte<i with c1assmatl"S at the BU Reunion, III , June 22-23, at Western.

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I

Basketball Coaches Dinner

Ralph Willard and Rick Pilino Dinm."r co-sponsored by

The Hilltopper Athletic Foundation and

The WKU Alumni As~iation

Thursday, December 20, 1990 Galt I louse, Louisville, KY

$50.00 per pcrson/8 people per table Tables may be reserved

Proceeds will benefit the WKU Mens Bilskctball Program

Contact the IlilItopper Athletic Foundfltion for tickets and table reservations

(502) 745-5321

Western Kentucky University vs" University of Kentucky

Basketball Game

Friday, December 21,1990 Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY

Information regarding ticket sales to be announced